Beta 2.2 RC1: Blender 2.49 Export Script testing thread

[face]

Everyone has the problem that the Octane result not match the result from other 3D-apps.
There is a percental offset to the lower left or right image edge.
The bigger the image size, the bigger the offset.
I know that radiance know the issue...

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[danvica]

Well, I wouldn't remove that option. Could be usefull.

Now I'm just checking your script. I hope you don't mind but actually I'm new to phyton so...

I just debug it a little and the frame counter is updated, the animation flag is set but I still have the same problem. It "seems" that Blender doesn't set the correct frame.

BTW What is the octaneWriteBatch var ?

[danvica]

Not from the programming side but just looking at the console: the exporter calls Octane with the same mesh file (ex.: testscene.obj) as the single frame render.

Doesn't have to call it with testscene_anim.obj ?

[danvica]

As a test I modified the script removing the "_anim" assignement and it works

But I still don't know why I'm the only one having this problem...

A very small thing: using 'Blender.Scene.GetCurrent().update(1)' instead of Blender.Redraw(1) is much more reliable. I found it usefull.

[lechu]

Could you give more details about those problems as I really can't point them ?

Here are the example renders, one from Octane and z-depth pass from Blender (rendered in doubled resolution, gaussian blur filter with 1px radius, and then scaled to 1200x800).

[madcoo]

Hi all!
I just wanted to quickly post a "public Thank You" to JAMES, for making the Blender Animation Exporter tutorial !!!

I hadn't had enough time to get into it so far, but thanks to you James i've been able to make my first animation video!
Many thanks !!!

There it is :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ikOY01Vars

Modelling done in Blender.
461 frames
5 hours of rendering (resolution 512x256 / 256 spp)

[face]

Nice job
One criticism, i think the blend between the camera keyframes is to hard.
Maybe you can blend them softer, then it looks of one pice.

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[madcoo]

I totally agree with you Face, thanks for the crit
In fact in Blender's video sequencer I tried to "soften" the transitions but didn't succeed...


Anyway it was a "first try", I'll do better next time, I promise !!!


Cheers,

Madcoo

[Alain]

Hi

I have a particle object with some stoneobjects distributed on it.

But when I export to Octance the stones do not appear.
I converted it into a mesh. But the stones still don't appear in Octane, only the Emitter-Object is visible.

If I render them with the Blender intern Renderer the stones are visible.

Does anybody have an idea what I do wrong ?


Kind regards
Alain

[matej]

@Alain, the object that is used for visualizing your particles must be on the active layers when you export