Error when exporting to FBX

ilyafloussov · ‎10-22-2012

I generated some geometry from a street map and am now trying to export to an FBX file but I am getting an error on every shape I am trying to export and there is no file created.

Using: Esri CityEngine 2011.1 build 1021 (release, win32-64bit) on win 7x64

here is what the log file looks like

EXPORT LOG / CityEngine 2011.1.10211215
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export started at: Mon Oct 22 16:12:00 2012
export completed at: Mon Oct 22 16:12:00 2012
export duration: 0.1 seconds

EXPORT SETTINGS
    format:                Autodesk® FBX® 2012
    location:              C:\Users\ifloussov\CityEngine\EdmontonOSMImport\models
    base name:             map
    export content:        0 (0 = models only, 1 = fallback to shape, 2 = shapes only)
    file granularity:      0 (0 = single file (or split by file budget), 1 = file per initial shape)
    file size budget:      524288000
    mesh granularity:      1 (0 = as generated, 1 = mesh per material, 2 = use instances of inserted assets)
    vertex precision:      0.00100
    normal precision:      0.00100
    texcoord precision:    0.00010
    merge vertices:        1
    merge normals:         1
    merge texcoords:       1
    triangulate:           0
    reproject texcoords:   0
    vertex indexing:       0 (0 = allow shared vertices, 1 = force separate vertices)
    normals type:          0 (0 = use vertex normals, 1 = use face normals (flat))
    normals indexing:      1 (0 = allow shared normals, 1 = force separate normals)
    write texcoords:       1 (0 = no texcoords, 1 = first layer, 2 = all layers)
    write materials:       1
    collect textures:      1
    file type:             1 (0 = ascii, 1 = binary)
    embed textures:        1
    write master file:     0
    master group name:     CityEngineSceneRoot
    write cam data:        1
    batch behavior:        0 (0 = normal, 1 = skip existing files, 2 = dry run)

INPUT STATS
    number of initial shapes      = 2915
    number of generated shapes    = 0
    number of generated meshes    = 0
    number of generated materials = 0

OUTPUT STATS
    written files: 0
    written materials: 0
    written meshes (total polygons): 0 (0)
    mesh names (polygons):

INPUT REPORT
    collected/generated initial shapes:
            0: ERROR : shape                                    OID: 24afa5c0-8367-11b5-a58a-0004a6b9019c:0
            1: ERROR : shape_1                                  OID: 24afa5c0-8367-11b5-a58a-0004a6b9019c:1
            2: ERROR : shape_2                                  OID: 24afa5c0-8367-11b5-a58a-0004a6b9019c:2
            3: ERROR : shape_3                                  OID: 24afa5c0-8367-11b5-a58a-0004a6b9019c:3
            4: ERROR : shape_4                                  OID: 24afa5c0-8367-11b5-a58a-0004a6b9019c:4
            5: ERROR : shape_5                                  OID: 24afe1e0-8367-11b5-a58a-0004a6b9019c:0
            6: ERROR : shape_6                                  OID: 24afe1e0-8367-11b5-a58a-0004a6b9019c:1
            7: ERROR : shape_7                                  OID: 24afe1e0-8367-11b5-a58a-0004a6b9019c:2
            8: ERROR : shape_8                                  OID: 24afe1e0-8367-11b5-a58a-0004a6b9019c:3
            9: ERROR : shape_9                                  OID: 24afe1e0-8367-11b5-a58a-0004a6b9019c:4
           10: ERROR : shape_10                                 OID: 24b2f44f-8367-11b5-a58a-0004a6b9019c:0
           11: ERROR : shape_11                                 OID: 24b2f44f-8367-11b5-a58a-0004a6b9019c:1
...

MatthiasBuehler1 · ‎10-23-2012

Hi !

1] You have a rule assigned, right ? [May ba a silly question, but you never know .. ]

2] Your assignes rule(s) do not have an error, right ?

3] When exporting georeferenced data, make sure you use the offset in the exporter settings to locate the data around the cartesian coordinates so you don't run into 'wobble' issues.
As described here: http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/59442-FBX-export-%28models%29-to-3DSMAX

If you need the data still georeferenced, export to kml.

Let me know ..

Matt

ilyafloussov · ‎10-23-2012

This was stupid,
I was exporting shapes not models, obviously there would be nothing there, they look so similar from far away.
Thanks for the wobble reference, I would have surely encountered that in the future had I not read that thread.

MatthiasBuehler1 · ‎10-25-2012

Hi !

Just a side note.

In the exporter, there's a dropdown which defines this behavior: The default is that if no rule is assigned, the shapes themselves are exported as if they were a model.

Cheers ! 😉

ilyafloussov · ‎10-25-2012

thanks again for the tip , I must have missed that .