Importing MHX deletes other random meshes

[aarslan]

Hi,
I've been trying to write a batch script to load characters I prepared from a directory and render them in certain environments.

I noticed that using the mhx importer in blender deletes *some* of the meshes that already exist in the scene. I can't find a pattern or a rule on how and why this takes place.

Here's an open source blend file
http://www.blendswap.com/blends/view/71749

It happened in all rigged (basic rig), textured characters that I created, so any one of yours will probably reproduce the same results.

Can someone try to reproduce the error using these files?
Basically the import function deletes the side walls completely and I have no idea why.
Thanks

[duststorm]

It does not delete meshes, it just changes what object layers are visible and which aren't.
The MHX importer has a tendency to do a lot of things, that you perhaps did not expect or intend. If you can't live with this, perhaps try exporting to collada and use blender's DAE importer. It's less feature-rich, but it behaves like a standard blender importer.

[aarslan]

It does not delete meshes, it just changes what object layers are visible and which aren't.

That was exactly the case, thank you. Any ideas on how to disable that?

For now I just commented the hideLayers line in the import function that comes with Blender but that's not a clean way of handling this. If you have a better way, I'd like to hear that too!

Unfortunately collada import doesn't work for me because I need to import the object with armature and textures...
Thanks!

[duststorm]

Any ideas on how to disable that?

Not that I know of.