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Has anyone experienced an issue with mjcteleblender where it tells you that it is unable to open c://scene.mtl?
Take a look at the attached picture. I would like for this to work, as I am tired of trying to do all the texturing myself and love working with Blender’s freestyle. Perhaps the script should be trying to read “c:/” not “c://” but I am not sure. Ideas? Solutions?
You're correct regarding the malformed address. But sometimes scripts will use varied schemes for internal process and then translate when sending data to the operating system. In the OS you're showing the correct address would be c:\ , or that is- c- colon- single backslash. Backslash for local drives forward slash for network addresses double backslash for local servers. [defined] All of the addresses showing in your capture are apparently incorrect.
Windows will try to compensate for that kind of thing but sometimes the location is still gone missing. Also a recursive search for the file might help find its actual location. . .
Good catch. I completely over looked that important detail. So the implied solution is to correct to back slashes?
I did a search before and came up empty.
Once I get off work I am going to change the paths' slashes and see if that works and post the results.
(That's right, I'm at work and on here lol. However I'm a Navy instructor and have my students on break so its not me wasting company dollars.)
Not company dollars just company bandwidth? : )
So yes the backslash is the implied solution. But since all the addresses showing are using unix style forward slash there's a very good chance the script is translating for the environment, so who can say. Honestly I'm not even sure what it is mcjTeleBlender is doing to DS.
If you go here, there's a notice for an update on Sept 10 which says, "the mcjUseMatLib.py Blender python module was corrected - if the use-mat-lib option is in effect, but the material-library doesn't contain a given material, a cycles node tree is built anyway - this is not a perfect patch since it breaks compatibility with non-cycles renders." The file in the screen shot above is an mtl which could mean the update might be relevant. Difficult to say. The problem could just be the missing mtl file. Hit and miss, check your battleship.
maybe C:\ is not a location on your hard disk where the script/Daz Studio are allowed to create mtl files
since you check-marked the fixmtl option, the script attempts to read the mtl file,
it then outputs the corrected file as ( in this case ) scene.tmp
it then deletes scene.mtl and renames scene.tmp to scene.mtl
so it's probably preferable to specify something like c:\users\yourUserName\scene.obj as the output file
this way you're sure it's in a writable folder
though maybe just re-specifying the output file as being c:\scene.obj , using the browse button may solve the problem
also you could open an empty daz studio scene, create a primitive cube, then do a file/export as .obj
and make sure that the obj export options include the creation of a material library file ( .mtl )
mcjTeleblender uses the .obj export services offered by Daz Studio
so maybe maybe the exported scene.obj is not accompanied by the expected .mtl file
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a minute ago i tried to specify c:\scene.obj as the output file
and windows warned me that i didn't have the right to create a file there
... so probably, when the script asks Daz Studio to export the scene as c:\scene.obj and c:\scene.mtl
nothing gets written to disk and this would explain why the script cant find c:\scene.mtl
I just checked. In Windows the double forward slash returns an error. Verified.
Windows uses back slashes for directory information. The OS can compensate for single forward slashes but the double forward slash is an attempt to go to the internet and the c: is an invalid argument for network access. Definitely need to correct the double forward slash if you want to access the local drive.
Permissions can be tricky for sure. If you've set C: as a temp location that should certainly be changed.
So simply put I needed to manually set the location of each parameter and it worked fine.
After some playing around I can now use it to send the scene with proper textures to blender3d and then use blender render with freestyle to achieve the desired images.
Thank you for working through this with me. I love it when the answer is simple.
I would be curious to see your results of the Blender Freestyle renders :)
Sure. Without playing around much with a lot of any aspect of the image, here is a quick result of an export from DAZ using teleblender, using the blender render engine with freestyle, and all the textures set to toon and briefly adjusted for wider diffuse, smaller shadows, some softness on shadow edges, and mostly no specular except some on the goggle lenses. Lighting was a quick 2 lamps and 1 area and about 30 seconds of adjustments (lighting is my weakness anyway). The lines are a bit thick and can be adjusted down but I was not really going to play with all the settings to get nice thin inner lines and a thicker border just yet because I am sleepy and will do that once the entire scene is set up. So for just a few minutes of set up here is an example of the freestyle with toon shading on normal textures all pulled from DAZ Studio into blender via teleblender.
ground shadows or shadow-catcher shadows
following the video tutorial by blendertutor.com over here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_B2H_jnaoU
By chance, there would be a script to render animations from poser in blender?
i did not try it recently, but there's a script i wrote to let you render Carrara scenes exported as obj.
maybe it will work with scenes exported from poser as .obj files
https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts2/mcjblendbotspecial
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/17623/
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note that it only supports simple materials, not all of poser's material features
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i'll test it using poser 9 and post my results in a new freepository thread
as some may know mcjTeleblender was designed for Daz Studio scenes
but there's a script in the kit of scripts to help you render Carrara scenes
and today i added instructions and tips for using it with Poser scenes
==============> http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/17967/
I had made a poser Python script to work with mjcTeleBlender, link here: http://3doutlaw.com/home/?page_id=631&did=17
I have not used it in a while, but it did work when I made it :)
as some may know mcjTeleblender was designed for Daz Studio scenes
but there's a script in the kit of scripts to help you render Carrara scenes
and today i added instructions and tips for using it with Poser scenes
==============> http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/17967/
Thanks, I'm looking for it now
Hello, hey! When I click download, all that appears is a page full of text. Where am I going wrong?
The download is a text file - that's what Python scripts are. You just need to change the extension from .txt to .py. I suspect 3DO may have restrictions on the type of files he can host.
Edited to add - to avoid the file appearing in your browser, right click on the download button and choose 'save link as' - or however your browser phrases that option.
- Update - Update - Update - Update - Update - Update - Update - Update -
the version of mcjBlendBot 2 which was uploaded November 3 was missing a function, which prevented it from working
today's November 9th version corrects this
tested on Blender 2.69 64-bit
https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts3/mcjteleblender2
Thanks Causal!!
Is it my imagination, or does 2.69 render slower than 2.68a?
same scene GPU renders 240 passes 1280x720
2.67b 64 bits according to the splash screen
( folder named blender-2.68-RC1-windows64 )
104 seconds
2.67b 32 bits according to the splash screen
( folder named 2.68-RC1-windows32 )
148 seconds
266.3 r55453
in a folder named Blender2663_55453
108 seconds
with 2.69 i was headed for a very long render
the reason was that Blender defaulted in CPU mode
to enable GPU renders you have to go in File/User Prederebces the System tab and enable CUDA
once that's done you can save the settings
frpm now on mcjTeleblende will be able to force the GPU render mode
render time 96 seconds
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shown below, the test scene
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oops what's going on ! Blender 2.64 - 8x8 tiles rendering ... 41 seconds
oh okay Blender 2.69 ... (non progressive tile rendering 64x64 pixels tiles) 44 seconds
i did not think that using the progressive rendering was so "expensive"
Blender 2.69 ... (non progressive tile rendering 128x128 pixels tiles) 35 seconds
Wow!! Thanks for finding the problem, Casual!!
Is it possible to save the presets of material nodes with mcjTeleblender or do you have to assign the nodes everytime you render?
It would be nice if the mcjTeleblender parameters could be saved with the DS scene. I think that's possible since that is what Luxus does.
if you save a Blender scene, as a .blend file
this file can be used later on as a material library
for example if you have a cene containing Victoria 4 and spend an hour tweaking the materials, you can save this blender scene as victoria_lib.blend
then next time you render Daz Studio a scene containing victoria
just specify to mcjTeleblender that you want to re-use the materials in victoria_lib.blend
in the mcjTeleBlender's "Process Materials" section, select "Use mat-Lib" and browse
up to victoria_lib.blend
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i did not test this in a long time but once upon a time it worked and i used it for animations
what would not be too hard is to allow saving the parameters in a text file
so i'll think about it !
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unrelated, recent render
Wow I am impressed at your script you have thought of everything
Just gave it a test and it works great.
MatLib.blend makes is so easy, its a time saver
Thank You
I have all the TeleBlender files installed here:
But it's not showing up in DAZ. ?
in the daz studio menus
if you go in Edit / Preferences / Content Library /
and click on the "content Directory Manager"
you can then set where Daz Studio looks for the content
in the image above you can see i have a few content folders
in your case you would add C:\Program Files\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4\content
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oh but now i see what's your problem
the scripts need to be in
C:\Program Files\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4\content\scripts
not
C:\Program Files\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4\scripts
So I just need to create a "content" folder and move the existing "scripts" folder into it?
“Problem: Unable to open C://scene.mtl” (with both forward-slashes) appears every time I try to run McJteleblender2. Both scripts were extracted properly in their respective Daz 4.6 and Blender 2.69 program folders, as near as near as I can tell, and it’s doing this on both my laptop and desktop, which are both Windows 7 64-bit.
Strangely, when I installed it on an older 32-bit machine (also Win 7), this didn’t happen—it ran fine.
Please help. I would appreciate any assistance. Thanks in advance.