what a great community of people who are willing to help!

I just downloaded Fazz's banjo to try out, and it seems to be importing fine with 9 different colour slots:



The text file seems to allocate each texture a separate ID while keeping the default toto.bmp:

(Excuse the dodgy circling, very difficult with a mouse )
Could you send me your cigarette as a sketchup file to mrdrwho13@gmail.com to see if I can find the problem?

I just downloaded Fazz's banjo to try out, and it seems to be importing fine with 9 different colour slots:



The text file seems to allocate each texture a separate ID while keeping the default toto.bmp:

(Excuse the dodgy circling, very difficult with a mouse )
Could you send me your cigarette as a sketchup file to mrdrwho13@gmail.com to see if I can find the problem?

roland1963 wrote:

Yes this is normal if you haven't manually edited the .ase file via a text editor as others have explained:
ukBerty wrote:

ziggy72 wrote:

Another thing I noticed from your error message that might be a typo problem:
"C\users\roland\Blabla\HipHop\textures\toto.bpm"
This should be C:\users\roland\Blabla\HipHop\textures\toto.bmp (Note the : after C)
edited by MrDrWho13 on 21/12/2015
edited by MrDrWho13 on 21/12/2015

Hi Urban,

I did as you said, I imported the Banjo one (the first link you gave me)...It only imports the banjo... there is no colour at all on this banjo (ashame btw).. It is all grey as the Toto file.
In the banjo folder there is the ase, fbx and toto files...But no colour on my import... is it normal?
Roland

When you import an ASE created from Sketchup you always have to edit it and replace this default texture with the textures you actually want as the sketchup exported does not export the textures.

The ASE file is in plain text format. Are you saying you opened it in Notepad and manually replaced the path and filename from TOTO.BMP with the path and file name to your texture, and MUVIZU still won't find the right texture?
The Bitmap location for each material is the default TOTO file, to keep Muvizu happy, so my cigarette starts off as all one colour. I load each texture into each slot. If I wanted Muvizu to load each texture for me, I'd have the change the default BITMAP path to something else, like D:\my stuff\models\ciggy\filter.jpg, or something similar. Hope that helps.

I don't know if Roland hand-typed the example of his error message, or if he cut and pasted it... but if he cut and pasted it, the "file not found" error could be coming from a typo in his ASE file where he edited the texture file name.

His example error message said "toto. bpm" instead of "toto.bmp"

Roland,

Instead of using a folder on your desktop create a folder in the root of your C:\ drive called C:\UT3 - this is somehow a special location for default ASE files. Stick all your stuff in there and see if it works.

I have all my objects for import on my S:\ drive, but I still have a C:\UT3 directory with a lone TOTO.BMP file in it to make ASE files happy.

roland1963 wrote:



Yes are they made in sketchup? there are some actual sketchup made models you need to try those not sets just models. At one point we could upload models that is what you need to try. Go to fazz's account and download a couple of his models and try those as he has confirmed they are all made in sketchup. This will determine if this is a sketchup issue or a muvizu issue or a pc issue.

http://muvizu.com/Profile/fazz68/Creations/?mediaType=25


try some of the older ones as he said they all contain the toto.bmp file.

here this one looks like it was one of his first ones

http://muvizu.com/3D/29902/reel-to-reel-tape-player
edited by urbanlamb on 20/12/2015

his error is specific to sketchup not all files require a toto.bmp and he is saying that this is what his error was at least that was what he started with.

roland1963 wrote:

They don't have to be made in sketchup, they just need to be an object in a .ase format. (There's a 90% chance they're from sketchup anyway)

Then when I try to import the model in Muvizu, Muvizu tells me "there was an error importing an object. File not found. C\users\roland\Blabla\HipHop\textures\toto.bpm"

urbanlamb wrote:


Of course, I imported sets from the store and they all open but Muvizu will not import my SketchUp when there is a texture... it imports them when there is not texture but when there is one; no...

urbanlamb wrote:


But how can I know what I am downloading is made in SketchUP... I can download 100 things and they will never be made in Sketchup?

Can you import files from the gallery? try a freebie just download it and try.

If that works just take their models out and stuff yours in all of it all the bits and pieces.

store gallery whatevers lol I know fazz uses sketchup and ziggy I think has some sketchup stuff just download an object made in sketchup and if that installs just use that file and put your stuff in there.

if it doesn't install then its something scrambled on your pc uninstall muvizu and sketchup do a registry cleanup using a registry cleaner I use the one from piriform its free and it works. https://www.piriform.com/CCLEANER (reboot after cleaning the registry)

Then put all the stuff back onto your disk and try try again.


If that doesn't work.. I would blame Muvizu if you can't import anything in the gallery and then.. you can report a bug

PatMarrNC wrote:


Actually,this thing is getting me crazy... 3 hours on it!!! I already not have much hair left but with this one...

If I go back to what I did;

1) created my cigarette in SketchUp (or what looks like it!)
2) Imported a 256x256 pixels texture in SketchUp for my cigarette
3) Add the texture on my cigarette
4) I used other SketchUp textures for the but
5) Exported as Ase file
6) Put all the files (ase, texture as bmp, skp) and the Toto file in the folder UT3 on my Desktop

It does not import in Muvizu...

So what Do I have to do on top of this? Or what did I do wrong?
edited by roland1963 on 20/12/2015

Can you import files from the gallery? try a freebie just download it and try.

If that works just take their models out and stuff yours in all of it all the bits and pieces.

Can you import files from the gallery?

roland1963 wrote:


The ASE file is in plain text format. Are you saying you opened it in Notepad and manually replaced the path and filename from TOTO.BMP with the path and file name to your texture, and MUVIZU still won't find the right texture?

Roland,

On a slightly different topic... if you are now importing models, I must assume you've either solved the enigma of installing Sketchup's ASE converter, or you downloaded and installed some other package that supports ASE export.

What did you end up doing? Enquiring minds and all that.
edited by PatMarrNC on 20/12/2015

I tried all of these; no result...

A default texture needs to exist. I think you can either:-

• Create a 256x256 BMP file of just a plain colour and save it as C\users\roland\Blabla\HipHop\textures\toto.bmp - this should fix it for this model. Or....
• Create a 256x256 BMP file of just a plain colour and save it as C\UT3\toto.bmp - This is the default location and should fix it for all models.

When you import an ASE created from Sketchup you always have to edit it and replace this default texture with the textures you actually want as the sketchup exported does not export the textures.
The difference between my exporter and the official Muvizu one is that the Muvizu one supports export of collision meshes which you will need to create. My exporter just creates a tiny collision mesh which is fine (and indeed preferable) in 99% of cases. If you need a character to stand on an imported object created with my exporter then just create an invisible ground plane and place it where you want the character.

Hope this helps.
edited by ukBerty on 20/12/2015