Hi,
I'm trying to import some geometry from a mapped drive, but everything is greyed out and unclickable. If I copy the files to my local hard drive, I can click on them. I still cannot import .lwo files though - which is what I'm really after - as I just get a 'Unable to read file ' error.

Any ideas?

Anti-Distinctlyminty
Hi,
I'm trying to import some geometry from a mapped drive, but everything is greyed out and unclickable. If I copy the files to my local hard drive, I can click on them. I still cannot import .lwo files though - which is what I'm really after - as I just get a 'Unable to read file ' error.

Any ideas?

I ran into this as well, it ended up being dependant on which unix user owned the directories/files on the linux fileserver. This was through Samba.

Any idea why the *.lwo files are just failing to read even if they are local?
Do you know what I need to do to be able to read files from the server?

Anti-Distinctlyminty
Any idea why the *.lwo files are just failing to read even if they are local?

Houdini's lwo reader is ancient, it needs the objects to be “pre-6.0” in flavor.

There is a very thorough lwo reader at http://forums.odforce.net/topic/15565-lightwave-lwo-reader-sop/ [forums.odforce.net]

Thanks eetu!
I'm no doubt being stupid, but I cannot find a download link anywhere on that page (I am signed in too).

The otl is attached on post #23 (second page).

http://forums.odforce.net/topic/15565-lightwave-lwo-reader-sop/?p=101387 [forums.odforce.net]

Derp - I should've just kept reading. Kiitos!

Alas, lots of errors

It can be a bit picky, but mostly it's just warnings.

Have you checked the timeutil issue on the last page of that thread?
Instead of installing it, you can comment out all timeutil stuff from the source.
(search for ‘timeutil’ and ‘parser’)

Another thing it chokes on is if a point attribute has a ‘-’ in it.

Ok, got over that hurdle…now I just get
"Error: Unable to read file "

The geometry is really simple too. I'm trying to load a few quads at the moment. Not really sure what to do next.

…and now getting this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “<stdin>”, line 1, in <module>
File “opdefSop/lwo?PythonModule”, line 4190, in onFilename
File “opdefSop/lwo?PythonModule”, line 4265, in LoadLwo
File “opdefSop/lwo?PythonModule”, line 79, in __init__
File “C:\PROGRA~1\SIDEEF~1\HOUDIN~1.343\python27\lib\logging\__init__.py”, line 902, in __init__
StreamHandler.__init__(self, self._open())
File “C:\PROGRA~1\SIDEEF~1\HOUDIN~1.343\python27\lib\logging\__init__.py”, line 925, in _open
stream = open(self.baseFilename, self.mode)
IOError: (2, ‘No such file or directory’, ‘C:\\tmp\\LightwaveSOP.log’)

Oh yeah, the default for the log file location is c:\tmp\ - either create that directory or change the default (via Type Properties -> Parameters).

If you change the default, I suggest you switch off the defaults for all the debug options, they really make everything slow.