ddabrahim Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Just tried Blender 2.73, it fbx exporter works but this Leadwerks exporter doesn't, having the same problem with it. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tournamentdan Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Can anyone explain how to get a texture out with cycles renderer? I can get the png files generating if I use Blenders old Render but when I try to use cycles the image file doesn't appear but the mat file does (with no image file reference). I don't know if it is because I don't know how to do it, or if you have to use the old render materials? Materials look fine with cycles in the viewport (as far as I can tell). Can anyone explain using export with cycles materials? Thanks, Michael Cycles renders light completely different from most other render engines. Especially real time engines. Because of this, the cycles materials can only be used in cycles. However, you can now bake textures in the cycles renderer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdgunn Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Cycles renders light completely different from most other render engines. Especially real time engines. Because of this, the cycles materials can only be used in cycles. However, you can now bake textures in the cycles renderer. So do you mean that any materials defined as cycles materials should be baked and then re-created as old-style Blender texture OR should the exporter export a cycles material if it is correctly baked? My simple example was just a UV map image (png). It exported the material but it lacked a path to the image and I don't know if this is because it was not defined right as a cycles material or because cycles materials CAN'T be exported even if they are just a PNG texture (which seems to me similar to a baked texture?). I was in Blender 2.72 BTW to try to make sure 2.73 RC was not an issue. I'm by no means an expert Blender user so I find it easy to get confused in the pipeline necessary here. If the plug-in needs old-style Blender render then I think that point is important enough to be in the docs. Thanks for responding. Hopefully someone can clarify a little more on if I HAVE to always bring everything back to a old-style Blender material to work. Cheers, Michael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tournamentdan Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 A material and a image based texture are two different things. If you uv unwrapped your model while in cycles render mode and used a image texture format that also works in Leadwerks, it should work. If you have a model that does not have a image based texture and you instead created materials using cycles nodes. It will not work. Unless you uv unwrap your model and bake a texture of your materials to a image based texture format that Leadwerks supports. Like .png. I have not been able to use leadwerks or the exporter for a while. Just due to being busy. Something may be wrong with the exporter. Try exporting to fbx and bring it into leadwerks that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ameshi Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 HI. I have a problem with the exporter, it doesn't export parameters of child objects properly. My object looks looks like this in Blender: And this is how it looks like in Leadwerks: As you can see the blue thing which is a child object, is not right. It position and angle is wrong. Tried the fbx exporter of Blender but I can't import it. I get "failed to load object" error message. Using Blender 2.71 Thanks. Seems like the Leadwerks Exporter for Blender was not tested properly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdgunn Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 A material and a image based texture are two different things. If you uv unwrapped your model while in cycles render mode and used a image texture format that also works in Leadwerks, it should work. I tried again and it seemed to go better this time. I seem to be able to export cycles based UV mapped image materials and the PNGs appear now. No idea why I had the problem before yet. Probably some material setting that I'm not spotting. Thanks, Michael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alrusdi Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 HI. I have a problem with the exporter, it doesn't export parameters of child objects properly. My object looks looks like this in Blender: And this is how it looks like in Leadwerks: As you can see the blue thing which is a child object, is not right. It position and angle is wrong. Tried the fbx exporter of Blender but I can't import it. I get "failed to load object" error message. Using Blender 2.71 Thanks. It is isuue about it in bugtracker https://github.com/alrusdi/leadwerks-blender-exporter/issues/1 Current workaround is to apply model transformations on each hierarchy level You can post sample file and i show you fix. I will work on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppy Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 So do you mean that any materials defined as cycles materials should be baked and then re-created as old-style Blender texture OR should the exporter export a cycles material if it is correctly baked? My simple example was just a UV map image (png). It exported the material but it lacked a path to the image and I don't know if this is because it was not defined right as a cycles material or because cycles materials CAN'T be exported even if they are just a PNG texture (which seems to me similar to a baked texture?). I was in Blender 2.72 BTW to try to make sure 2.73 RC was not an issue. I'm by no means an expert Blender user so I find it easy to get confused in the pipeline necessary here. If the plug-in needs old-style Blender render then I think that point is important enough to be in the docs. Thanks for responding. Hopefully someone can clarify a little more on if I HAVE to always bring everything back to a old-style Blender material to work. Cheers, Michael If you bake your cycles materials/node setup then there is no difference to the blender internal Quote System: Linux Mint 17 ( = Ubuntu 14.04 with cinnamon desktop ) Ubuntu 14.04, AMD HD 6850, i5 2500k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronald Buanno Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 I have been using the latest blender (2.73) and this plugin. It works ok for me so far. Exported a bottle with materials I made entirely in blender without issue. I did not however have a child object. Later when I add "liquid" in my bottle and parent it to bottle, I'll see if it messes up. Upon further thinking, Does this need to be parented? Can I not simply join the water and the bottle together? Could you join your frame and blue sheet in the same manner to avoid this issue? Just some troubleshooting idea. Quote Ubuntu 14.04 (64-Bit) - Intel Core i7-2700K - Geforce GTX 670 - 8GB RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3Dski7059 Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 I do not understand what is difference between exporting to fbx format with plain blender (no plugin) and using "Leadwerks Exporter for Blender" plugin. Sorry if answer is obvious (just started to learn Leadwerks). In case xeranas, or anyone else who was wonder has this same question.... This exported creates a Leadwerks MDL, as opposed to exporting to FBX and Leadwerks having to convert that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaelek Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 It is isuue about it in bugtracker https://github.com/alrusdi/leadwerks-blender-exporter/issues/1 Current workaround is to apply model transformations on each hierarchy level You can post sample file and i show you fix. I will work on. Any plans to correct this in the exporter? That issue was logged about 5 months ago now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonan Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 @SomeKnight, did Josh state that himself, if so please provide a link to the relevant article. If he didn't say that please explain how you know what he wants. If you are venting an opinion in your first post, please amend your behaviour and respect the forums provided by Josh, that allows you to ask the community for assistance, and promote your own work. I believe the exporter is written in python, so if you are up to it, you can try improving the exporter yourself. Maybe in your next post we will be able to appreciate the hard work you have made in the making of a positive contribution. This is a really good community, and we welcome new comers, many of us being new ourselves only a short time ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted February 12, 2015 Author Share Posted February 12, 2015 I contacted the author of this to see if he is available for additional paid work. Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alrusdi Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Any plans to correct this in the exporter? That issue was logged about 5 months ago now. I have some weird problems with Leadwerks itself on both Linux and Windows and it's very demotivated me to work on that problem. But with Josh's help i hope we will fix it very quickly. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost811 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Evening all. I seem to come across a bug. I can export as FBX, but it fails to do so with LW exporter. I've attached my .blend, as well as a screenshot of the error. I've looked for the usual suspects, inverted normals, overlapping UV, duplicate vertex, apply scale, rotation extra objects, etc. I don' think it's my file, but I might be wrong. Anyways, thanks for looking into it, this is a brilliant application and I enjoy very much using it. .blend here. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4_osSxp3TcVSHNiRHE0Q1hwZzQ/view?usp=sharing Using Windows 8.1 64 bit, produced error with blender, 2.73a, and 2.72b. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alrusdi Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 I seem to come across a bug. I can export as FBX, but it fails to do so with LW exporter. Seems to be fixed for now. But it's no reason to export skined model without animation because Leadwerks is not exposes public API to manipulate bones at runtime 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost811 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Seems to be fixed for now. But it's no reason to export skined model without animation because Leadwerks is not exposes public API to manipulate bones at runtime Thanks! It must have missed that in the docs somewhere. In case anybody has the same error, it was caused by exporting without any animation. All I did was add a 2 frame animation, and it worked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted February 19, 2015 Author Share Posted February 19, 2015 I've contacted the author about fixing that transformation bug. 1 Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alrusdi Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 I'm happy to announce new version of Leadwerks Blender Exporter with important bugfixes. Please let me know if you still have any problems. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeirus Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 I'm happy to announce new version of Leadwerks Blender Exporter with important bugfixes. Please let me know if you still have any problems. Hi alrusdi, I've installed it regularly, but does not appear listed in the add-on list (Blender 32 bit, v 2.73a) Addenda: Resolved! The automatic install from .zip creates a useless parent directory: ...\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.73\scripts\addons\leadwerks-blender-exporter-master\io_scene_leadwerks\... To view in add-on list must be removed from parent dir. The correct path is: ...\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.73\scripts\addons\io_scene_leadwerks\... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alrusdi Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Hi alrusdi, I've installed it regularly, but does not appear listed in the add-on list (Blender 32 bit, v 2.73a) Downloadable zip archive with plugin is not meant to be installed with automaic install from zip. Please read installation instructions: https://github.com/alrusdi/leadwerks-blender-exporter#installation When i started this work i hoped that exporter will be inside main Leadwerks distribution (correct installation and docs) but Josh is not interesting it. So we have what we have. If i will have free time i will create a separate site with documentation and sample content, but cant say when exactly it happens. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted February 22, 2015 Author Share Posted February 22, 2015 I'm not exactly sure where we would put the file if it was included with Leadwerks on Steam. Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alrusdi Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Tools/Expoters/Blender/io_scene_leadwerks.zip for example Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeirus Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Downloadable zip archive with plugin is not meant to be installed with automaic install from zip. Please read installation instructions: https://github.com/alrusdi/leadwerks-blender-exporter#installation When i started this work i hoped that exporter will be inside main Leadwerks distribution (correct installation and docs) but Josh is not interesting it. So we have what we have. If i will have free time i will create a separate site with documentation and sample content, but cant say when exactly it happens. Thanks for the clarification. In my opinion, your add-on should be integrated by default in Blender (like the other exporters) and not only in Leadwerks tools Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted February 25, 2015 Author Share Posted February 25, 2015 How do we contribute this to Blender? Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.