Blendigo (for Blender 2.5x) 3.0.14.1

[dougal2]

Is the igm in question available for me to test here?

sure but its just a simple phong

The problem here is that blender's python has an issue with the UTF8 character "é" in fused's name in a comment in the packed .igm file !

I can't really put this error down to Blendigo, but I'll see if there's anything I can do.

[dougal2]

I can't really put this error down to Blendigo, but I'll see if there's anything I can do.

OK, so the actual problem is that the gold.igm file is encoded in the latin-1 character set, where the "é" character 0xE9 is valid, however as blender+blendigo are operating in UTF-8, this character becomes invalid as it decodes to something else (a character which requires some other specific characters to follow it).
There's no real solution to this, as igm files from users could be in any text encoding, and there's no additional info in or with the file telling us what encoding to use for it.
(python latin-1/utf-8 specifics: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5552 ... ation-byte)

EDIT: issue is resolved by trying to decode the file in utf8, latin-1 and finally ascii in that order. if none of those work then the file will not be loaded.

[OnoSendai]

Hi Doug,
as a general principle, all Indigo XML files (.igm, .igs etc..) should be UTF-8 encoded.

[fused]

Sorry about this. Older versions of cindigo did export igm files utf8 encoded, save my name.

[Jambert]

Doug, would be nice to add bidirectional pathtracing CPU rendering mode.

thx

edit: sorry, I didn't see custom menu...

[Doug Armand]

I can't really put this error down to Blendigo, but I'll see if there's anything I can do.

OK, so the actual problem is that the gold.igm file is encoded in the latin-1 character set.

Latin? What have the Romans ever given us eh?......


But glad you've found the problem

[pvbeeber]

Hi. I love the integration into the Blender working environment, but have looked all over for motion blur controls and can't find them. Has this not been implemented yet?

[pvbeeber]

Also, rendering an animation doesn't seem to work. It tries to render all frames simultaneously. A little disappointing since this worked fine in the last version.

[fbrunell]

Windows 7
Blender 2.58.1 R38019
Blendigo 3.0.14.1
Indigo 3.0.14

Hello,

I've got a strange error message lately. I'm currently rendering an animation with the new Blender 3.0.14 (Yep, I'm SOOOO anxious to see the new release for full networking and automation support too) and got the following error in the log.

"WARNING: Discarded received frame, as incoming scene sequence number 0 does not match current scene sequence number 7."

I have 1 master with 3 slaves for my renders but with this error message is seams that the slaves are actually not participating in the render. I'm not crazy, this worked before with the current release.

Also, I've noticed from time to time that when I exit Indigo from Windows, the Indigo windows actually disapear but the process is still running. This creates a problem where all slaves are still attached to the previous Indigo session and do not connect to the new session. (Could it be related?) Here are the steps taken to render the current scene :

1. Loaded scene from Blender (File with multiple scenes)
2. Launched render with Indigo
3. Indigo starts normally (click manually on network rendering)
4. After desired sample count, click on stop in Indigo
5. Close Indigo
6. Go back in Blender
7. Change scene and launch render again
8. Indigo starts normally (click manually on network rendering)
9. No slaves connects
10. Go in task manager and see 2 Indigo process (one at 4% utilization and one at 95%)
11. Kill the 4% utilization process
12. After a couple of seconds, slaves connect to the active Indigo
13. In the log, I receive the error message for every single samples received from all my slaves.

[Headroom]

Animation in Blendigo for Blender 2.5 (2.6?) is currently not working. I've posted that months ago!

[dougal2]

Animation in Blendigo for Blender 2.5 (2.6?) is currently not working. I've posted that months ago!

I know about this, and it's because Blender doesn't actually tell the exporter whether it's rendering a single image or an animation, and I cannot detect whether to export a queue file or launch a single instance. I'm still trying to think of a decent workaround.

[Jambert]

Animation in Blendigo for Blender 2.5 (2.6?) is currently not working. I've posted that months ago!

I know about this, and it's because Blender doesn't actually tell the exporter whether it's rendering a single image or an animation, and I cannot detect whether to export a queue file or launch a single instance. I'm still trying to think of a decent workaround.

2 or 3 years ago, don't remember when exactly, a little script was exported with .igs to start rendering. Was usefull to calculate in console_mode.

[dougal2]

Animation in Blendigo for Blender 2.5 (2.6?) is currently not working. I've posted that months ago!

I know about this, and it's because Blender doesn't actually tell the exporter whether it's rendering a single image or an animation, and I cannot detect whether to export a queue file or launch a single instance. I'm still trying to think of a decent workaround.

2 or 3 years ago, don't remember when exactly, a little script was exported with .igs to start rendering. Was usefull to calculate in console_mode.

I spoke to the Blender developers today about this issue. The necessary changes in Blender should be available in the next Blender release; I'll update Blendigo when the feature is available to use.

[Jambert]

When export animation without autostart, it makes a .png all black file.

[fbrunell]

Animation in Blendigo for Blender 2.5 (2.6?) is currently not working. I've posted that months ago!

Sorry, my mistake, my e-mail was not clear ... I'm actually making a video by creating manually an animation rendering an "Image" from Blender not an "Animation".

The main problem was the fact that Indigo is still running even though I closed the apps and it is "sucking : for lack of better word" all slave available on my network!!!

I just noticed that 3.2 is out. I'll try to see if I still have this problem with the new version.


Edit: Ah, a good night sleep always helps to clear up things.... Are you saying that Networking does not work "at all" with "Indigo" 3.0.14? I tought is was only "Blendigo exports" that were not working! I just tried it again and I'm getting the same error with 3.0.14 even after reseting all slaves starting networking from Indigo! (WARNING: Discarded received frame, as incoming scene sequence number 0 does not match current scene sequence number 5.)