Blender Applink

[riuka]

I am using Win 7 64

Blender 2.61 last build

error message:

[haikalle]

Hi riuka! I tried and it worked like it should be. Could you tell a specific version number you are using that I can do some more testing. Thanks.

[riuka]

2.61 from the official site as well as various assembly http://graphicall.org/.

3d-Coat-V37-01B-SIMP64

[haikalle]

Could you tell where is your blender and 3d-coat program located in your computer (full path).

[riuka]

c:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\

c:\Program Files\3D-Coat-V3\

[riuka]

no such file or directory

[haikalle]

Sorry for late reply... This is interesting issue. In your first image I can see that blender was loaded in D: drive. Was this the case?

And where is your windows documents folder placed? I quess it's not this one c:\Users\Nell\Documents\

also where is your 3d-coat exchange folder located?

Many questions but I hope we can find a fix... I'm not so often online in this weekend so fixing this bug could take a little bit longer. Sorry about that.

[riuka]

I do not speak English. all through an interpreter, so it may not be clear what I write. different screenshots since tried on different computers. in my documents folder, no exchange

[haikalle]

Thanks to Riuka one very important bug was fixed. If you face problems with applink, please download the latest blender version from graphicall.

[3DArtist]

haikalle, with the new vertex paint feature in 3DC, would it be possible to export the vertex color to blender also?

[ifxs]

+1 to the question from 3DArtist. The ability to export vCols from 3DC into Blender, this would be great to have :-)!! @Haikalle, this is such a great script, thank you for your work on it :-)!

[gbball]

haikalle, with the new vertex paint feature in 3DC, would it be possible to export the vertex color to blender also?

Yeah,

This would be great!

[haikalle]

Surely that feature is on my ToDo list. I'm very excited about this. But I tend to wait a little bit because It's still first beta. Also needs to change

that applink to use lwo format instead obj (fbx would be other good format option). I do some tests...

[haikalle]

Hi I have been wondering this behaviour for long time. When I import a object into 3d-coat it creates two objects into object list. Why is that? The problem is that

When I export lwo file into blender it creates two object there too. One object with cube and other one is empty. I'm trying to add vertex color into blender applink and I

could do a hack easily to delete the other one. But I hope that we could clean this behaviour away from 3d-coat to easy other appllink develloppers work. If this

the bug, I'm not quite sure. Thanks

[Polygoon]

Hi haikalle, hope you have some success with it. Not sure that fbx. would be an option as Blender is only able to export fbx., but maybe you have a way around that.

[3DArtist]

It looks like it happens when you have "Material Groups" selected in the blender OBJ export options.

I don't know if this is helpful or not, but I found an obj file on the internet that sheds some light on how zBrush 3.5 exports vertex color using #MRGB tags.

# The following MRGB block contains ZBrush Vertex Color (Polypaint) and masking output as 4 hexadecimal values per vertex. The vertex color format is MMRRGGBB with up to 64 entries per MRGB line.
#MRGB ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
# End of MRGB block[/CODE]

[haikalle]

It looks like it happens when you have "Material Groups" selected in the blender OBJ export options.

I don't know if this is helpful or not, but I found an obj file on the internet that sheds some light on how zBrush 3.5 exports vertex color using #MRGB tags.

# The following MRGB block contains ZBrush Vertex Color (Polypaint) and masking output as 4 hexadecimal values per vertex. The vertex color format is MMRRGGBB with up to 64 entries per MRGB line.
#MRGB ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
# End of MRGB block[/CODE]

Thanks a lot!!!!

I turned material groups off and now it works really nicely. Saved my day I will take a look the Zbrush Vertex Colors....

[kirkl]

Blender Applink does not work in 2.61. It tells something about missed exchange folder and have no option to set it manually

[haikalle]

Hi Kirkl. Do you use the latest version from graphicall. There was a bug that was fixed and it will be included into 2.62. But if the bug still occurs could you

tell you OS?

[kirkl]

no, I download the version from blender.org, an official 64bit one. Thanks for the update.

[kay_Eva]

Just stopping by to say this continues to work amazingly just like magic! Thanks!

[Nightwalker3d]

Hi haikalle, I have the set_exange folder error as above. My sistem automaticaly builds daily from blender trunk svn and puts the files

at: /Users/Cordeiro/Documents/work/BIN/blender-build/install/darwin/

I'm on osx Lyon

thanks

[haikalle]

Hi Nightwalker3d and welcome to forum. I was hoping that my last bug fix would had solved all the errors in osx systems too....

Could you tell when the error happens. Does it happen when you click one of the buttons. Also Could you post the full error message for me.

I don't have osx system so fixing this could take some time. but I try my best

[Nightwalker3d]

Yes it happens when I click either the update or transfer buttons. I can edit and test the script myself if you point-me to the right direction . Thanks for your help

[haikalle]

try this: Open coat.py and replace line 49 whit this one:

exchange_path = os.path.expanduser("~") + os.sep + 'Documents' + os.sep + '3DC2Blender' + os.sep + 'Exchange_folder.txt'

[Nightwalker3d]

Fixed !! Thank you

[haikalle]

Cool Blender SVN updated.

[kirkl]

It now works in Blender 2.62 64bit, The only problems are when I push update button in Blender an object comes bigger then it was before and loses all its hard edges if it had any.

[haikalle]

Hi kirkl!

loses hard edges is known problem. At the moment in blender there is no record if object is smoothed or not. So I had to write the applink code ether to smooth

all objects or unsmooth all objects. And I ended up to use smooth all objects because I would imagine that's more common.

About objects comes bigger. I tested 2.62 applink and it seams to work ok. Are you using displacement maps? Displacement can effect in the way that object becomes bigger.

When you create displacement map in blender, the applink creates new Displace modifier. Try to disable it and see that fixes the problem.

[kirkl]

I tested it several times with just a cube from the initial scene. Now it seems to work fine. Not sure what was wrong before