Forum: Carrara


Subject: Import, Export problem

banyan16 opened this issue on Apr 21, 2000 ยท 8 posts


ewinemiller posted Sat, 22 April 2000 at 9:31 AM

I've offered to help out Dave, even gone as far as setting up a pristine machine with no extensions. I wasn't able to recreate the problem with the pristine machine or my own complete mess machine, but I don't have exact recreation steps. I've asked him to send me the obj file and try it again with a fresh scene, hopefully we can find the steps to recreate the problem. Shader Pack 1 is installed to the CarraraExt directory and once you delete the Carrara folder it's gone, so even if it was the culprit, it's long gone from Dave's machine and wouldn't be causing the problems Dave is still seeing. It doesn't use anything outside the Ext directory and if it's not in the Ext directory Carrara doesn't load or activate it. Right now I suspect the obj file he is trying to import is corrupted or has something in it Carrara doesn't understand. I've had problems with obj export and import in the past too. I didn't see Dave's exact symptoms, I didn't get the duplicate the selected item problem, but I did see objects that Carrara wouldn't draw and if you tried to render them it would barf. In those cases I had to go back to a previous save. In many of those cases, if I opened fresh and went through my steps again it would work fine so it was probably some problem that happened over time and/or use. Eric Winemiller Digital Carvers Guild Freeware and commercial 3D extensions http://digitalcarversguild.com

Eric Winemiller
Digital Carvers Guild
Carrara and LightWave plug-ins