Blender 2.2 stable & 2.4.x

[Borgleader]

Ok, so I'm having a few issues with the both of these...

1) I can't choose where to export and quite frankly I don't even know where it does export. I searched for the files but couldn't find them on my hard drive.

2) Last time I was able to export I couldn't find the option to have only the one .igs file I always ended up with an igs and a folder with *.igmesh.

3) When switching from 2.2 to 2.4.3 in the "Environment" tab, under "Sun" and "Sky" there was nothing, no little slider to choose the layer number for either of them.

4) If I choose autorun Indigo on export, the scene that renders is empty, all that shows up is the background sky.

Before you ask:
Blender 2.49
Python 2.6.2
Windows 7 32bit (i did have this issue on 64bit as well, and I believe the python version is the same)

[dougal2]

Ok, so I'm having a few issues with the both of these...

1) I can't choose where to export and quite frankly I don't even know where it does export. I searched for the files but couldn't find them on my hard drive.

The console should tell you where the files were written:

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Export Still to C:\Users\DOUGHA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\default.igs

2) Last time I was able to export I couldn't find the option to have only the one .igs file I always ended up with an igs and a folder with *.igmesh.

All mesh data is written to .igmesh binary files because they are smaller and faster to read and write. The meshes are written to numbered folders corresponding to the frame number so that animations work as expected.

3) When switching from 2.2 to 2.4.3 in the "Environment" tab, under "Sun" and "Sky" there was nothing, no little slider to choose the layer number for either of them.

The sun layer has no controls, just the +/- button for enabling or disabling. The Sky layer has the same as well as the turbidity control. The light layer for each is named as 'Sun' or 'Sky', the old system of using plain numbers is history.
I forget exactly the behaviour of the +/- buttons, but I think if the button is disabled, then that light group will be part of the 'default' light group, and if enabled, then it will be available in its own layer.

This area I agree could still use a little refinement in order to make the behaviour more obvious, and allow other light layer names for sun and sky.

4) If I choose autorun Indigo on export, the scene that renders is empty, all that shows up is the background sky.

Is there anything abnormal reported in blender or indigo's logs ? What happens if you load the .igs file manually (find the path written to from the blender console).

[Borgleader]

The console should tell you where the files were written:

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Export Still to C:\Users\DOUGHA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\default.igs

Ok it exports it to appdata ... but thats kinda far, would it be much work to allow us to specify an export directory?

All mesh data is written to .igmesh binary files because they are smaller and faster to read and write. The meshes are written to numbered folders corresponding to the frame number so that animations work as expected.

Oh ok then

The sun layer has no controls, just the +/- button for enabling or disabling. The Sky layer has the same as well as the turbidity control. The light layer for each is named as 'Sun' or 'Sky', the old system of using plain numbers is history.

I guess I've been out of the loop too long.

Is there anything abnormal reported in blender or indigo's logs ? What happens if you load the .igs file manually (find the path written to from the blender console).

Not that I've noticed. It writes a bunch of .igmesh files and then starts indigo and the render is blank.

Oh and one last thing, where is the "dont use default.igs" option?

[dougal2]

Oh and one last thing, where is the "dont use default.igs" option?

I'm away from my dev machine now so can't check, but I think that option is on the System tab.

If I'm wrong and it's not there, consider it added to the TODO list

[Borgleader]

I'm away from my dev machine now so can't check, but I think that option is on the System tab.

If I'm wrong and it's not there, consider it added to the TODO list

Its there but its called "Autogenerate igs path"