Hi guys,
sorry for barging in again with what's probably a stupid question, well... more like 2 questions regarding duplication. (I'm currently on exporter v. 4.1.3)
The first one I already have an answer to...
I am trying to render a parking lot with just a single car duplicated a few times, since it consists of multiple objects, rather than merging them, I parented them to a Null Object, added both the Null and it's children to a group and added instances of that group (SHIFT+A > Add Group Instance). When I tried to render, i got this in the system console:
debug: Material debug BASE <bpy_struct, Object("Audi_Q7_PART3.011")> None MESH <bpy_struct, Mesh("Audi_Q7_PART3.011")>
debug: Dupli obs [bpy.data.objects['bmw.011'], [Matrix(((0.14644736051559448, -0.9892184734344482, 0.0, 127181.59375),
(0.9892184734344482, 0.14644736051559448, 0.0, 72025.203125),
(0.0, 0.0, 1.0, -0.0003668330900836736),
(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0)))], bpy.data.objects['BMWGRP']]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.78\scripts\addons\Corona_exporter_v3\outputs.py", line 1040, in write_scn
name = name_compat(group.name) + '_' + name_compat(dupli.data.name)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'name'
Corona: Failed :(
Error: Something went wrong, unable to write .scn file. Check directory permissions of export directory.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.78\scripts\addons\Corona_exporter_v3\engine.py", line 353, in render
render_start( self, scene)
File "C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.78\scripts\addons\Corona_exporter_v3\engine.py", line 38, in render_start
render_scene( engine, scene)
File "C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.78\scripts\addons\Corona_exporter_v3\engine.py", line 188, in render_scene
bpy.ops.corona.export_scene()
File "C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.78\scripts\modules\bpy\ops.py", line 189, in __call__
ret = op_call(self.idname_py(), None, kw)
RuntimeError: Error: Something went wrong, unable to write .scn file. Check directory permissions of export directory.
location: <unknown location>:-1
location: <unknown location>:-1
<!> event has invalid window
Now removing the Null object from the group, therefore not duplicating it helped, and the render finally started, but now the dupligroup objects don't appear in the final image. Is this a bug, should I wait for 4.1.4. to become available, or should this work and is this just another case of the error being located somewhere between the keyboard and chair of my workspace?
Thanks very much in advance!