Misc LOD generator 1.4

[Deleted member 223075]

Tested and works fine. Thanks

 

[Patrik Marek]

manual lods are fun and really help you with learning where it's important to keep detail and where not so much

 

[Deleted member 223075]

With RallyLegends cars (Delta, Fiesta...) i get this error :
"error null texture on fbx_material texture txdiffuse export failed"

What can i do ? Because they forgot (or don't want) to add LODs

EDIT : solved. there is so many missing texture (NULL) in KSeditor. So i have to set all textures, save in .kn5 before using LOD generator and this for each RallyLegends car.... really good..

 

[FrostMW]

Hey I had this problem where it says input geometry invalid

 

[Please Stop This]

mh seems like its that one case out of 10 in which it doesnt work, maybe try to narrow it down by not exporting the whole model, but only some parts, when doing this consider just doing lods by yourself, you can even cut down to two LODs only, as some have done...

 

[Jayenn]

What helps at times in cases where a simplygon error occurs is to just open the model in 3dSimed and save it without any changes and then try generating the lods again.

 

[Mickstix]

So, if Im not mistaken, after the generator does it's thing, all we really need is the 3 newly created .kn5's and the new lod.ini, correct? Thanks for this, it's a huge time saver!!

Note: I've found on my laptop, if I put more then 2 .kn5's in the folder and run the converter, it'll give me an error and say there's a memory problem or something (similar to the error posted above) Ive found that rebooting the machine solves this, for me anyway..

 

[Denny370]

Non capisco perché, ma lo strumento si blocca sempre alla prima creazione di LOD B, non fornisce alcun messaggio di errore o di errore, non va oltre il semplice

 

[gordonhch]

Non capisco perché, ma lo strumento si blocca sempre alla prima creazione di LOD B, non fornisce alcun messaggio di errore o di errore, non va oltre il semplice

I encountered this as well. Gone after I removed the whitespaces and save the file. Maybe an encoding error?

 

[Please Stop This]

yep, dont use cars with spaces in name, it could break some of the batch-stuff

works too: using a copy of the kn5 without spaces, afterwards rename only first part in "\data\lods.ini"

 

[Denny370]

it seems that I always have problems with Simplygon, every time I have to reinstall it otherwise it won't work

 

[gordonhch]

What I found is the model I was converting (Honda Acty!) has 1 texture file with space in the name. I think PowerShell doesn't like that.

What's more interesting is that the _DragDropGenerator version messed up with that texture and threw an error during the Simplygon conversion, but the BatchConvert at C:/BatchConvert does the job perfectly.


@Denny370 Try the older versionand see if it works better for you too! To see which part of the script fails you can also put some lines of @echo some progress and pause into the script to debug it if you wish to.

 

[Ben Lee]

I have seen a few LOD D's driving on the UK roads...

 

[Charles Amyouni]

Simplygon 9 SDK Update is currently not working with the tool anymore even if the location has been modified to match MS' new installation location of Simplygon.

 

[Please Stop This]

Yes looks like a huge rebuild. also there is no normal gui any more.
Puh, idk if i dig into making it working again
It was a bad workaround anyway, so i guess i dont invest time here anymore.

 

[Emà!!!]

So there is not a way to make it work again, even going back to a previous version of simplygon?

 

[Charles Amyouni]

Doubt since Simplygon servers will refuse to work on older versions.

 

[Denny370]

I confirm that if you download simplygon 8 free, the LOD generator tool will always work.
only drawback, every time you need it you will have to install \ repair again with simplygon 8.
I always use it and unfortunately every day I use it I have to repair the installation with simplygon 8 free

 

[Please Stop This]

old 8something version still works, just ignore update demands of the program, "server" is just a program on you computer, it does not upload files to the internet or something

 

[Denny370]

yes, you do not have to do any updates that the PC requires.
I download simplygon from here, always the latest version, install and everything works.

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