Animated V-Ray Proxy

[Dwayne_Ellis]

Is there a way to basically do what Supermesher and XMesh are doing but the end product be a vray proxy object? Lets say there is a sequence of obj files that i would like to get into a single vray proxy file....is this possible.

[vlado]

Lets say there is a sequence of obj files that i would like to get into a single vray proxy file....is this possible.

Of course; you can use the ply2vrmesh tool to collect a bunch of .obj files into a single animated proxy file.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Dwayne_Ellis]

Hmmm....must be doing something wrong here. My command line must be wrong. My directory is c:\obj\ and i'm using this:

ply2vrmesh c:\obj\water*.* c:\obj\water.vrmesh -append

Its creating a file in that directory with 0kb in file size while throwing up an error message saying that incementalsave_begin<> failed.

I appologize if this is an easy one!

[Dwayne_Ellis]

Oh and the vertex count is changing over time as well...not sure if that makes a difference or not.

[Dwayne_Ellis]

Sorry...figured it out. Extremely useful by the way.

[vlado]

Just for the record: changing polygon counts are not an issue.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Da_elf]

wouldnt that mess up motion blur?

[vlado]

In many cases, no.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Dwayne_Ellis]

Is the command line that i wrote above correct?

ply2vrmesh c:\obj\water*.* c:\obj\water.vrmesh -append

I can't remember what i did to fix it. It creates the vrmesh with the first obj then stops and throws up the error. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[vlado]

I think you need to specify the extension of the input files, f.e. c:\obj\water*.obj - otherwise, ply2vrmesh will pick up all files, including the newly created output file.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Dwayne_Ellis]

Thanks Vlado...that was it. I'm still getting errors though:

Reading .obj file... 13.5 Error writing file: [VUtils::ObjInterface::init] Error in vertex definition at line 31185

Not entirely sure this is ply2vrmesh fault....doesn't seem like it. The obj files are being written out of Blender so there may be an issue there. I tested it twice and it seems to error out on the same obj file. I tried removing the offending obj from the sequence and it continued on and completed the sequence so i'm going to assume its on the Blender end of things!

[vlado]

It might be helpful to get me the problem *.obj file to vlado@chaosgroup.com so that we can take a look.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Dwayne_Ellis]

Sent you three obj files from the sequence.