- Blender DTS Exporter 0.97 Documentation Index
- Installing the Exporter
- Overview of the DTS File Format
- Setting Up DTS Shapes in Blender
- User Interface Overview
- Tutorials
- DTS Meshes
- DTS Materials
- DTS Animations
- LOD - Levels of Detail
- Blender Survival Guide
- Changes from earlier versions
- Notes on Coordinate systems
- Notes on Scale
- Quick Export Feature
- Troubleshooting
- Common Problems
- Errors and Warnings
- Error: Skinned mesh (meshname) without armature parent...
- Error : Cannot read mesh type (meshtype)
- Error : Shape contains no meshes (no valid detail levels)!
- Error getting base Transforms
- Error. Not processed scene yet!
- Error: Could not get animation curve for visibility animation (seqname)
- Error: Could not get ground frames for sequence (seqname)
- Error: Exception encountered, bailing out.
- Error: Vertex index limit exceeded for mesh (meshname), truncating mesh!
- Error: Wrong number of verts in Triangles primitive!
- Error: failed to open shape stream!
- Warning: Invalid skinned mesh in rigid object (objectname)!
- Warning: Material (matname) is using environment mapping with a detail map ...
- Warning: Multiple Blender mesh names in (detaillevel) all reduce to the same DTS Object name ...
- Warning: Object (objectname) has no meshes!
- Warning: One or more of your armatures is locked into rest position ...
- Warning: Skinned mesh (meshname) has no vertex groups. Mesh will not animate!
- Warning: Texture Image (imagename) is used on a mesh but could not be found in the material list!
- Warning: The following vertex groups in skinned mesh (meshname) ...
- Warning: [nodetype] node (Blender Object: [objectname]) conflicts ...
- Warning: popTask() with no task!
- Reporting Bugs
- Exporter Credits
Error: failed to open shape stream!
Mon, 02/02/2009 - 07:32 — Joseph Greenawalt
This error occurs when the Blender DTS exporter is unable to open the dts file in the specified location for writing. This has several possible causes:
- Insufficient file system permissions for the user account under which Blender is running to write to the current export file/folder.
- A previous crash of the exporter caused the DTS file to become "locked" (the OS thinks the file is still being written to)
- Another program or process has locked the target dts file for writing
- Possible invalid output file name or folder/directory
Troubleshooting:
- Close the exporter, save your .blend file, and restart Blender to see if the file lock is cleared.
- Close any other processes that might be using the file
- If restarting Blender fails, try rebooting your computer
- Check in the exporter's general panel to make sure that the output folder and file name are valid.
- Check your operating system user permissions to ensure that your user account has write permissions for the file/folder/directory that the exporter is attempting to write to.