exported eggs not loading

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After pidding about, and an excellent video tut by Miniorb Studios I successfully exported an egg… I suppose it was successful because the preview viewed the textured cube made in Blender. But when I try to import it into Panda I get the following:

File “C:\Panda3D-1.7.0\direct\showbase\Loader.py” line 169, in loadModel raise IOError, message IOError: Could not load model file(s) [‘models/mine’]

mine.egg is there, as are the demo models which load fine using the same script… sorry to be a dumb newbie… is it something to do with where the texture tiff is located?

2

if the texture would fail to load you’d get an “unable to locate texture…” error. this one looks like it found the model but cant load it for some reason.i’m not an expert when it comes to the loader…
do you have permissions to read the file?

3

mine.egg file reads:

{ Z-up }

{ “Egg laid by Chicken for Blender, version R91” }

myBox {
diffr {0.800000011921}
diffg {0.800000011921}
diffb {0.800000011921}
specr {0.25}
specg {0.25}
specb {0.25}
shininess {12.5}
}
myBox_00_plaster {
“./plaster02.tif”
saved-result { 1 }
envtype { MODULATE }
minfilter { LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR }
magfilter { LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR }
wrap { REPEAT }
}
Cube {
Cube {
0 {
1.0 0.999999940395 -1.0
{ 0.000000 0.000000 }
}
1 {
1.0 -1.0 -1.0
{ 1.000000 0.000000 }
}
2 {
-1.00000011921 -0.999999821186 -1.0
{ 1.000000 1.000000 }
}
3 {
-0.999999642372 1.00000035763 -1.0
{ 0.000000 1.000000 }
}
4 {
1.00000047684 0.999999463558 1.0
{ 0.000000 0.000000 }
}
5 {
-0.999999940395 1.0 1.0
{ 1.000000 0.000000 }
}
6 {
-1.00000035763 -0.999999642372 1.0
{ 1.000000 1.000000 }
}
7 {
0.999999344349 -1.00000059605 1.0
{ 0.000000 1.000000 }
}
8 {
1.0 0.999999940395 -1.0
{ 0.000000 0.000000 }
}
9 {
1.00000047684 0.999999463558 1.0
{ 1.000000 0.000000 }
}
10 {
0.999999344349 -1.00000059605 1.0
{ 1.000000 1.000000 }
}
11 {
1.0 -1.0 -1.0
{ 0.000000 1.000000 }
}
12 {
1.0 -1.0 -1.0
{ 0.000000 0.000000 }
}
13 {
0.999999344349 -1.00000059605 1.0
{ 1.000000 0.000000 }
}
14 {
-1.00000035763 -0.999999642372 1.0
{ 1.000000 1.000000 }
}
15 {
-1.00000011921 -0.999999821186 -1.0
{ 0.000000 1.000000 }
}
16 {
-1.00000011921 -0.999999821186 -1.0
{ 0.000000 0.000000 }
}
17 {
-1.00000035763 -0.999999642372 1.0
{ 1.000000 0.000000 }
}
18 {
-0.999999940395 1.0 1.0
{ 1.000000 1.000000 }
}
19 {
-0.999999642372 1.00000035763 -1.0
{ 0.000000 1.000000 }
}
20 {
1.00000047684 0.999999463558 1.0
{ 0.000000 0.000000 }
}
21 {
1.0 0.999999940395 -1.0
{ 1.000000 0.000000 }
}
22 {
-0.999999642372 1.00000035763 -1.0
{ 1.000000 1.000000 }
}
23 {
-0.999999940395 1.0 1.0
{ 0.000000 1.000000 }
}
}
{
{ myBox_00_plaster }
{ myBox }
{ 0.000000 0.000000 -1.000000
}
{ 0 1 2 3 { Cube } }
}
{
{ myBox_00_plaster }
{ myBox }
{ 0.000000 -0.000000 1.000000
}
{ 4 5 6 7 { Cube } }
}
{
{ myBox_00_plaster }
{ myBox }
{ 1.000000 -0.000000 0.000000
}
{ 8 9 10 11 { Cube } }
}
{
{ myBox_00_plaster }
{ myBox }
{ -0.000000 -1.000000 -0.000000
}
{ 12 13 14 15 { Cube } }
}
{
{ myBox_00_plaster }
{ myBox }
{ -1.000000 0.000000 -0.000000
}
{ 16 17 18 19 { Cube } }
}
{
{ myBox_00_plaster }
{ myBox }
{ 0.000000 1.000000 0.000000
}
{ 20 21 22 23 { Cube } }
}
}

AND MY PANDA3D FILE:

import direct.directbase.DirectStart
from pandac.PandaModules import *

scene1=loader.loadModel(“models/mine.egg”)
scene1.reparentTo(render)
scene1.setPos(-8, 42, 0)

run()

4

I had placed model off path. All works now.

Cheers