Importing mesh does not work because of a manifest error

[skalibran]

Hey there,

 

after a long break I started to play with Babylon.js again. 

I want to import a mesh I created with blender (scene.babylon) and the babylon.js exporter.

When I try to call it, I get the error

GET http://perditio.com/scene.babylon.manifest?1440183275871 403 (Forbidden)b.checkManifestFile @ babylon.js:11b @ babylon.js:11b.ImportMesh @ babylon.js:14createScene @ index.html:107(anonymous function) @ index.html:125babylon.js:3 BJS - [20:54:35]: Valid manifest file not found. Scene & textures will be loaded directly from the web server.

and a white screen:

http://perditio.com/babylontest/blendertest/index.html

 

The code for calling the mesh:

var SCENE_MODEL;			BABYLON.SceneLoader.ImportMesh("scene", "./../../", "scene.babylon", scene, function (meshes) {    				var m = meshes[0];    				m.isVisible = true;    				m.scaling = new BABYLON.Vector3(0.5,0.5,0.5);    				SCENE_MODEL = m;			});			SCENE_MODEL.position.y = 1;			SCENE_MODEL.position.x = 1;

What did I wrong?

 

Thanks for reading!

[MarianG]

Hi, you got a white page not because of manifest error, you have other javascript errors. 

It's not a problem if you haven't manifest file. Default BABYLONJS try to load your files from manifest, and if you don't have one, it'll load your files directly from server.

 

Try 

BABYLON.SceneLoader.ImportMesh("", "./../../", "scene.babylon", scene, function (meshes) { //without scene as first param

It looks like you have no meshes there.

[elkyu]

have you try to put your .babylon file in the sandbox ? http://www.babylonjs.com/sandbox/

What do you see ? 

[skalibran]

Thanks for the fast answers. @bulisor: Unfortunetaly, if I replace the code snippet it still has the same problem. If i remove the whole function for loading the mesh, the I no longer have a whitescreen and the basic scene I created without external programs. If I change the file path, it also gives me a 404-Error for that object, so it seems like it finds it the way I did it.

 

@elkyu: If I put the .babylon-file there I see the square I "created" with blender, so everything seems to be okey.

[elkyu]

You have a "403 forbidden" error, access to the file is forbidden. your link is "./../.."  try to put your babylon file and the manifest in the same folder as the javascript file , just to test   

 

I don't know at all if it will solve the problem. But the error 403 says that a file is not accessible, then ..

[skalibran]

I already have set full permissions for that (just in case). What do you mean with manifest file? the scene.babylon? I just have a HTML document and the scene-file

[elkyu]

I took a look on your website, you use an old version of Babylon.js (Yes, 11-02-2015 it's old for Babylon.js )

If you look here :  http://doc.babylonjs.com/whats-new a list of all the updates for each version of Babylon. 

And for the version 2.1 : "No more error when a manifest is not found"

 

So, you can try to update your babylon.js version, you can find the current version (2.2) right here : http://www.babylonjs.com/babylon.js

 

This should fix the error 403. Maybe other errors too .. 

[skalibran]

Hey there, thanks for the answer! I updated the script source, but I still get the "Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 403 (Forbidden)"-Error :/

 

GET http://perditio.com/babylontest/blendertest/scene.babylon.manifest?1440242979497 403 (Forbidden)

 

The permissions for the whole structure are 775

[elkyu]

Have you try to put all the file in the same folder ? scene.babylon , scene.babylon.manifest and your html document , set the full permissions don't work sometimes. try to check, if the problem comes from the permissions or not

[skalibran]

As I said, I don't have a scene.babylon.manifest-file. When I try to create one it gets removed instantly from my ftp server

[iiceman]

I should have nothing to do with the manifest file.

var SCENE_MODEL;BABYLON.SceneLoader.ImportMesh("scene", "./../../", "scene.babylon", scene, function (meshes) {    var m = meshes[0];    m.isVisible = true;    m.scaling = new BABYLON.Vector3(0.5,0.5,0.5);    SCENE_MODEL = m;});SCENE_MODEL.position.y = 1;SCENE_MODEL.position.x = 1;

About your code: if you want to set the position of your imported mesh, you should do that within the callback function. If you keep it like this it probably won't work because the model is loaded asynchronously. That's means you start loading the model but before it's done you already to to set a position for it.

 

That might not be the actual problem why you don't see you mesh though. I think you have to specify the name of the mesh that you want to load from that file. Where you have BABYLON.SceneLoader.ImportMesh("scene",... you should try to replace "scene" with the name that mesh has in Blender.

 

If you want to load the whole scene you should check out the SceneLoader.Load function insted: http://doc.babylonjs.com/classes/2.2-alpha/SceneLoader

 

If you still don't get any result you can provide you babylon file here and we can try to play around with it and find a solution