Official Leadwerks Exporter for Blender

[alrusdi]

How do we contribute this to Blender?

Here is the instruction. Plugin should be widely used and pass the review http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Process/Addons

[AnthonyPython]

Here is the instruction. Plugin should be widely used and pass the review http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Process/Addons

 

cool

[MaxAigner]

Hallo,

 

I have downloaded the latest review of the exporter and have already exported some models. Only my last model simply does not want to export!

 

it has like 6641 Faces and several materials. Why do I get this error?

Blendfile:

http://workupload.com/file/aEZD5ac6

 

Thank you for you help in advance! -

yours

Max Aigner

[alrusdi]

It seems like you have some non-latin symbols in material names. For example: "Grünerknopf". Current leadwerks file format is not supporting it.

[MaxAigner]

Thank you alrusdi!

Now it works

[MaxAigner]

Hello,

 

Bugreport:

1. the Error "Couldn't find exportable Objects" comes if the selected Object has a Parent.

Workaround: Unparent the object you want to export.

 

2. it would be awesome if the exporter would remember the checkboxes I checked (export only selected models) even when the last export went wrong... (the "export only selected" should be default in my opinion..)

 

anyway a good exporter - keep updating!

 

yours

Max Aigner

[pracedru]

Hi, further to my previous post, I have a test .blend, a very simple cube mesh, with 2 bones, an IK target bone and a single action.

 

http://marchingcubes.com/leadwerks_test.blend

 

and the result:

 

http://marchingcubes.com/leadwerks_test.mdl

 

When i export this to leadwerks using the leadwerks blender exporter, load it in the model viewer, and assign a material with animation support e.g. the crawler material, the animation does play, but I get the mesh flickering in and out of existence at various frames.

 

I am on ubuntu 14.04, using leadwerks 3.3 from steam, blender 2.72 and the latest blender exporter from this site.

 

Hopefully you can reproduce and/or suggest a fix for me, I would really like to get this resolved as a solid pipeline for doing armature-driven animation from blender is essential to my work.

 

I Also have this issue.

I run Blender and Leadwerks on Linux.

I have tried to do the Blender Work and exporting in Windows and importing in Leadwerks on Linux, but with the same result. I havent tried to Import on Windows Leadwerks since i dont have a Windows machine with OpenGL 4 support

I am running my Windows build environment in Virtualbox. So i can run Blender and build the solution in Visual studio.

[alrusdi]

Last problem is unrelated to exported itself. Leadwerks model viewer under Linux has this problem on most animated models and Josh knows about it.

[pracedru]

Its not just the model viewer.

The model from the Crawler works fine in the Leadwerks model viewer and the model imported from blender does not work in game.

 

If i can't do animations with Blender and import to Leadwerks. Does any one know another solution that can be used?

This is really a showstopper for me right now

[alrusdi]

Its not just the model viewer.

Then you should give us your model (both .blend and .mdl files) for testing

[pracedru]

Goto here to get blender file and model files.

[shadmar]

.fbx looks fine when imported to LE. (when given a material with skinning shaders)

.mdl file looks wierd on the animation yes.

[pracedru]

.fbx looks fine when imported to LE. (when given a material with skinning shaders)

 

Does the animation in the fbx file look allright?

[pracedru]

After reinspecting things i have noticed that the animation of the .fbx file is imported in Leadwerks. However its about 1000 times the size. I will make a video showing this when i get home.

[Monkey Frog Studio]

Hello! Does this work in Blender 2.79? I went to Add-Ons and used Install from File, but nothing shows up in the Blender Add-On window (i.e. there is no Leadwerks exporter to check). Thanks for any help with this.

[damvcoool]

Will this need to be updated to work with Blender 2.8?

[Josh]

Is the FBX pipeline working well for everyone?

[gamecreator]

Posted an issue I have here (not Blender related though).

[3dart]

would this also work with 2.8

[reepblue]

I'd prefer you just export models as an fbx these days.