Blender Addon - Blenderer

[BrianH1]

When I installed Blender from the link at the start of this thread, the link directed me to the windows store and it installed the software in the windowsApps folder in Program Files. This folder is hidden and needs higher permission to allow VC to access it.

I then downloaded the Blender installation file directly from Blender at Download — blender.org and it allowed me to select its own installation location. This worked perfectly with no issues.

[emeritus]

Thanks. I modified the link in the top post.

[yigit.yilmaz]

hey there Radovan,
Did you solve this issue?
I’m trying to use Blender on Kuka.Sim but I’m having some errors when I run the simulation. So I thought you could lead me the way to solve it
Thank you

[yigit.yilmaz]

Hey guys,
I’d like to use Blender on KUKA.SIM. I installed and added the Blenderer addon without any issues.
I followed this path:

*** Error in animation rendering call. ***
 - Make sure you first check "RecAnimation" check box
 - Then run simulation once until "RecAnimation" is automatically unchecked
 - Then hit "RenderAnimation"

I got these errors when I followed the path:

  File "file:///C:\Users\%users%\Documents\KUKA\KUKA Sim 3.1\My Commands\Blenderer_2_3_0__2023_09_14\Blenderer.py::", line 839, in CallStill
  File "file:///C:\Users\%users%\Documents\KUKA\KUKA Sim 3.1\My Commands\Blenderer_2_3_0__2023_09_14\Blenderer.py::", line 992, in CallBlender
  File "file:///C:\Users\%users%\Documents\KUKA\KUKA Sim 3.1\My Commands\Blenderer_2_3_0__2023_09_14\Blenderer.py::", line 968, in get_blender_exe_uri
TypeError: an integer is required

Do I need to change the code inside the Blenderer.py file or what?

Thanks in advence

[BAD]

Hello everyone!
I am currently using blender to conduct some pipeline experiments. I found that in some of my files, the robot is working very normally, while in other files, my robot is twitching strangely as if it was invaded by a cyberpunk virus .Although the overall operation is still very good, this twitching still affects the look and feel a bit. What is the reason for this, and is there a way to eradicate it?
Thanks in advance to anyone who responds and have a great day!

[salvador]

Hi there,

I get following error when i press “Blenderer”

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “file:///C:\Users\Simulación\Documents\Visual Components\4.5\My Commands\Blenderer_2_3_0__2023_09_14\Blenderer.py::”, line 64, in OnStart
File “C:\Program Files\Visual Components\Visual Components Professional 4.5\Python\Lib\encodings\utf_8.py”, line 16, in decode
return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf8’ codec can’t decode byte 0xf3 in position 17: invalid continuation byte

Do you have any idea how can i solve it?

Thank you very much.

[BAD]

Hello,
I see that there is a section of “file:///C:\Users\Simulación” in your path that looks like an unrecognized character ó appears in the path.

[BAD]

I checked my model again and found that this problem only occurs with robots. I suspect it is because of the robot IK. At the same time,I found that this problem does not appear in blender plugin version 21, so it seems that this is an overlooked optimization point in the new version of blender plugin.

[Harriv]

I tested concrete materials with Blenderer, it looks like the texture is not considered at all?

Here how it looks in Visual Components with “Realistic shaded” mode:

And here how it looks rendered with default settings:

The concrete textures seems to be in the Textures\ directory, so what could be wrong?

[salvador]

I’ve change that and it works perfectly,

Thank you very much again

[yigit.yilmaz]

Hey guys,
I’m using KUKA.SIM 3.1 with blender 3.6

I downloaded and extracted the addon to the KUKA.SIM/MyCommands file. Then I downloaded and installed Blender from the link on the first post.

I restart the KUKA.SIM 3.1 and prepared a program with a random robot. As you can see from the image:

Then I clicked on the Blenderer button:

but I’m having this error:

how can I solve it?

[BAD]

This problem does not seem to be a problem with the plug-in itself. Most of the time, the problem should be caused by not correctly assigning the Blender address to the plug-in, something similar to this:

Please try to determine if they point to the wrong URL. If that doesn’t work, you can try lowering the Blender version.

[yigit.yilmaz]

I tried it with blender 3.5.0
i checked the blender URL and it’s true
now i get this error no matter if i follow it or not:

thank you

[yigit.yilmaz]

tried it with blender 2.83 and getting same error…

[idkfa]

I would say this is not an error, it’s kind of reminder, Blender add-on needs to get camera moving path and components positions first, then create video frame by frame, so you need to

1. Check Animation::RecAnimation: Tell Blender add-on that you want to record a video.
2. Run simulation: Let Blender add-on to get camera moving path and components positions.
3. When Animation::RecAnimation option is unchecked by Blender add-ons itself, not manually, which means simulation time is bigger than Animation::EndTime, Blender add-on has got enough information, press Animation::RenderAnimation button to start create video.

[yigit.yilmaz]

thanks
so what excatly i need to do?
i’m super new on simulating

[idkfa]

For rendered image

Press Default::Render button

For rendered video

1. Check Animation::RecAnimation manually, define start recording time and end recording time. For example, Animation::Start == 5s, Animation::End == 10s
   

2. Start simulation
   

3. When simulation time is bigger than 10 seconds (Animation::End), Animation::RecAnimation will be unchecked automatically.
   

   

4. Press Animation::RenderAnimation button
   

[yigit.yilmaz]

thank you

i still get the same error

it says “Type Error: an integer is required”

[idkfa]

Can you upload these 2 things

Advanced::BlenderExecutable’s value

Blender.exe folder

Do you have impression for this dialog?

[K.paul]

Hello, could someone possibly help me? I use blender mainly for pictures, but I don’t understand that they are sometimes so overlit and sometimes perfect in quality only if I change the view a little.
Especially the floor bothers me that it is not rendered in detail.
Here is an example where the same settings were used.
Mainly i get the bad ones thats so frustrating.

Good Example:

Bad Example:

Thank you very much