How to make PovRay or Aqsis work with nightly builds?

[Lemon]

I have both renderers installed but none of them works when i hit the rendering button. What settings should i change? My current OS is Windows 7.

[mflerackers]

What output do you have in the console or log when pressing render?

[Lemon]

I get no output at all, even when I start makehuman from cmd. It's hidden for some reason. I used to get detailed output in XP. What does it mean?

[mflerackers]

Are there python_out.txt and python_err.txt files?

[Lemon]

Here's python_err.txt content

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./core\gui3d.py", line 1214, in onMouseUpCallback
    self.mouseDownObject.callEvent('onClicked', event)
  File "./core\events3d.py", line 167, in callEvent
    getattr(self, eventType)(event)
  File "./core\gui3d.py", line 387, in onClicked
    self.__view().callEvent('onClicked', event)
  File "./core\events3d.py", line 167, in callEvent
    getattr(self, eventType)(event)
  File "plugins\4_rendering_aqsis.py", line 80, in onClicked
    self.buildShaders()
  File "plugins\4_rendering_aqsis.py", line 88, in buildShaders
    self.buildShader(shader)
  File "plugins\4_rendering_aqsis.py", line 96, in buildShader
    subprocess.Popen('aqsl %s -o "%s"' % (srcPath, dstPath), shell=True)
  File "C:\Python26\Lib\subprocess.py", line 621, in __init__
  File "C:\Python26\Lib\subprocess.py", line 830, in _execute_child
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 80-83: ordinal not in range(128)

The end of python_out.txt:

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Could not load 3_libraries_human_texture
No module named urllib2
POV-Ray Export Parameter File
povray imported
Povray loaded
Rendering setting imported
Settings imported
Help imported
Pose plugin imported
pose loaded
Texture tool imported
Texture tool loaded
Unable to open data/targets/macrodetails/universal-male-young.target
Unable to open data/targets/macrodetails/universal-female-young.target
looking for aqsis.exe
C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common\aqsis.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live\aqsis.exe
C:\Windows\system32\aqsis.exe
C:\Windows\aqsis.exe
C:\Windows\System32\Wbem\aqsis.exe
C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\aqsis.exe
C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Shared\aqsis.exe
C:\Program Files\EgisTec MyWinLocker\x86\aqsis.exe
C:\Program Files\EgisTec MyWinLocker\x64\aqsis.exe
C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\DDS Utilities\aqsis.exe
C:\Program Files\Aqsis\bin\aqsis.exe
LEN FACEINDICES base.obj, 17916
BASETEXTURE texture
LEN FACEINDICES eye_balls, 0
LEN FACEINDICES cornea, 0
LEN FACEINDICES teeth, 0
LEN FACEINDICES nails, 0
LEN FACEINDICES skin, 0
Povray unloaded
Expression 2 unloaded
Expression unloaded
Measurement unloaded
Texture tool unloaded
Background chooser unloaded
pose unloaded
Custom targets plugin unloaded

[Manuel]

Investigating..

But Aqsis have a lack of some important features, like png support, so we are not sure about maintain or not it, in future.
Can you post the python_err.txt that happen when you try povray?

Best,

Manuel

[Lemon]

Manuel, i've just tried Pov-ray and checked python_err.txt - it's empty!
I remember that i had a message that MH can't find povray on my PC. But it was installed. I guess I checked not to display that message that's why i didn't get it this time.

The thing i like about Aqsis is that it creates images with transparent backround by default - that's exactly what i need. I've never used PovRay earlier so i don't know whether it works the same way.

[mflerackers]

For povray you need to change the path in makehuman\apps\mh2\mh2povray_ini.py to point to your povray exe.

[Lemon]

For povray you need to change the path

Thanks. At first I thought that was the solvation. But i still get no output and no rendered image. So i guess that wasn't the only problem.

[Manuel]

Aqsis is fixed in svn. It should be in this or in the tomorrow nightly build.