No sequences in Blender DTS export?
by Alex Rice · in Artist Corner · 06/03/2004 (10:37 pm) · 8 replies
I finished the Blender exporter tutorial, and now have 2 sequences in my blender model of the Radar tower: "Tilt" and "Rotate". They work OK when I drag the read head through the Action timeline in the Action Editor window.
But when I run the DTS Export 0.6 script, no sequences appear on the Sequence options popup menu, and no sequences get exported apparently. No dsq files appear either. Tried hitting " Update" button. Any tricks for getting it to see sequences? Can the -show mod display the kind of sequences that DTS Export creates?
Blender 2.33a
DTS Exporter 0,6
Thanks in advance,
Alex
But when I run the DTS Export 0.6 script, no sequences appear on the Sequence options popup menu, and no sequences get exported apparently. No dsq files appear either. Tried hitting " Update" button. Any tricks for getting it to see sequences? Can the -show mod display the kind of sequences that DTS Export creates?
Blender 2.33a
DTS Exporter 0,6
Thanks in advance,
Alex
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#2
Could be a problem with the naming of your ipo's. Go into the ipo editor, and select action ipo's. They should be named like :
"Action_Name.Bone_Name"
Working on an update that should solve this issue, along with many others.
06/03/2004 (11:59 pm)
Alex,Could be a problem with the naming of your ipo's. Go into the ipo editor, and select action ipo's. They should be named like :
"Action_Name.Bone_Name"
Working on an update that should solve this issue, along with many others.
#3
06/04/2004 (5:27 am)
James, can you clarify where to select and rename this? In blender 2.33a, I am working in the "Action Editor" window. There is also the IPO Curve Editor, and the NLA Editor. I don't know where to name the ipos. I have two actions, "Tilt" and "Rotate".
#4
So whenever I add a new action, I make sure it's from a "blank" action that has _no_ keyframes in the Action window. After renaming the new action, any new keyframes and IPOs will have the same name.
On a side note, how do you define sequence length in the exporter? Perhaps I'm overlooking something obvious, but I keep getting blank frames tacked onto the end of all the sequences I export.
06/05/2004 (2:26 pm)
I think a major cause of this problem is that when you create a new action, it will duplicate the existing action and IPOs in the Action editor. The names of IPOs for the new action will then have names similar to the first action, even if you rename the new action. If this happens, you have to rename the IPOs manually in the IPO Curve Editor.So whenever I add a new action, I make sure it's from a "blank" action that has _no_ keyframes in the Action window. After renaming the new action, any new keyframes and IPOs will have the same name.
On a side note, how do you define sequence length in the exporter? Perhaps I'm overlooking something obvious, but I keep getting blank frames tacked onto the end of all the sequences I export.
#5
06/05/2004 (3:47 pm)
My Blender 2.3 Guide arrived. Wahoo! All the way from Netherlands. I will return again, with a clue or two about IPOs :-)
#6
The exporter gets the number of frames in the sequence from the first ipo it finds that belongs to the action.
06/07/2004 (2:45 pm)
Walter,The exporter gets the number of frames in the sequence from the first ipo it finds that belongs to the action.
#7
So it checks the keyframes in the IPO, and uses the last keyframe in the IPO to define the sequence length? Or does the IPO have to be named in a way that contains the sequence length?
06/07/2004 (5:55 pm)
James,So it checks the keyframes in the IPO, and uses the last keyframe in the IPO to define the sequence length? Or does the IPO have to be named in a way that contains the sequence length?
#8
In case you are still wondering, it finds the first ipo it finds belonging to the sequence, and gets the number of keyframes in it. It then uses this information to determine sequence length (in keyframes).
Only requirement for the naming of ipo's is that they need to be in the form "Action Name.Bone Name" for the current exporter to pick them up.
06/10/2004 (1:06 am)
Walter,In case you are still wondering, it finds the first ipo it finds belonging to the sequence, and gets the number of keyframes in it. It then uses this information to determine sequence length (in keyframes).
Only requirement for the naming of ipo's is that they need to be in the form "Action Name.Bone Name" for the current exporter to pick them up.
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