Beta 2.2 RC1: Blender 2.55 Export Script testing thread

[SnoWWolf]

Hi Nautilus! Are you using Beta 2.2 or new beta 2.3 v5?

[the_nautilus]

Tried it with both versions at home, but Blender seems to get stuck before even initializing Octane.

[bepea]

Hmmm, yea at work everything is fine for me, but at home I have a similar problem where Blender just hangs, even with export sun feature disabled. I looked at the console screen and it's giving me an "Exception: Octane plug-in: Cannot find scenes directory" despite the fact that I defined the binary, project path and project name (with no spaces just to be sure). The only real difference is at work it's XP 64 and home it's Win 7 64, but I don't see how that would make any difference.

Double check you paths because when I use the file selection dialog box in Blender I get a path like this: "//..\..\..\Program Files\Refractive Software\Octane Render 1.022b x64\octane.exe" and I have to correct it manually.

[SnoWWolf]

I checked the paths - ok



blender shows this in console, octane isn't starting, task manager shows no process activity



BTW Blender 2.49 works fine, exports and opens octane without issues.

[ycarry]

In File browser, when path choose, simply select file path in top field, copy and past in Project path field: it want real path, no relative.
And if Export sun is checked... sun need to exist in scene.

Works well for me, enricocerica, thanks!
No tested in animations...

[bepea]

snowwolf: You need to change the "project path" from relative to absolute path, eg.: "c:\octane_projects"

[SnoWWolf]

THX! it works!

[franbec]

Thanks enrico. Great job, working fine in Blender 2.54 latest releases win 7 64,and octane pre 2.35 win 64.

[steveps3]

I am struggling to get images to export. If I check the "Copy image files" button, Octane crashes every time. At the moment I am having to change the diffuse colour to image every time I render.

[enricocerica]

I am struggling to get images to export. If I check the "Copy image files" button, Octane crashes every time. At the moment I am having to change the diffuse colour to image every time I render.

Are you using relative paths for the images ? If so you may convert them to absolute path, will check later on if I can manage relative paths in the script but for now it seems to be a problem.