Hi guys,
The newest 2.65 release did indeed break the script while trying to access user preferences for map zooming. Campbell changed the way addons are loaded restricting locations in the script where bpy data can be accessed. Other external scripts have also been broken. The message from Campbell can be read here.
Also note that the sun position addon is not part of the regular Blender package and must be downloaded again when major revisions occur or moved from the old directory to the new scripts directory. It is slated for contrib addons but is not there yet.
'Tis the 6th day of Christmas, so I bid you Merry Christmas.
There was yet another change to the Python API which I didn’t know about when I did the last fix on Dec. 22.
Anyone using Blender 2.65 starting with revision 53207 would get ‘callback’ errors.
The change of course broke this and any other addon script not in trunk that makes use of callbacks.
And so reC, I’m with you in hoping that they’ll integrate this as a full-fledged addon and takeover code changes.
Its no fun waking up to find something you thought was finished is never finished.
The new version 2.04 will only work with Blender 2.65 r53207 and greater,
that is unless the core code is changed again.
If you are using Blender 2.61 r43774 to 2.65 r53206 you should get version 2.03.
These are both available at: wiki.blender.org/…/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/3D_interaction/Sun_Position
I’m having no luck with loading this add-on into 2.65 on Mountain Lion. Someone has kindly offered the Snow Leopard solution that demands the zip file is unopened for installation but this doesn’t work in Mountain Lion.
Any suggestions? (I am a relative newbie to Blender). Thanks
thanks xaire for the update, this has been broken for me for a week or so…
it’s a nice and useful script but I doubt it can go trunk until you strip some of the heavier map images
Everybody, Xaire’s post of 22 Dec 18.57 solves the Mac OS-X 10.8 Mountain Lion problem with the new link as long as you install the zip file unopened as users of Snow Leopard understand.
Sorry maccus that you had troubles. If ever this addon makes it to trunk, that type of thing shouldn’t happen
as code changes will be made before release.
liero, I agree about the image sizes as detrimental as downloads take 2.7mb.
So what to do?
Two things for one last version before the new year:
Hopefully no one will take it amiss if I remove the two largest map images
which reduces the addon down to 460KB making it more appealing for trunk.
Animations can now be made without the need of keeping the Properties panel visible.
So if the Sun panel is enabled and an animation is started, key-framed sun position values and objects
should update properly when switching to any other screen or panel.
For those wanting to be able to synchronize HDR textures with a sun lamp, version 3.0 is now available at: wiki.blender.org/…/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/3D_interaction/Sun_Position.
The image below shows the sun panel when in Sun + HDR mode. The easiest way to line up the sun with a texture is:
Select an environment texture
Select whether Mirror Ball or Equilateral
Select sun lamp
Press the “Sync Sun to Texture” button. This will cause a lat/long image of the HDR texture to appear in the 3D View. As with the world map, you can zoom, move it etc. Simply move the cross hair to where you want to bind the sun then press right mouse or Esc.
The Lamp and texture are now bound together. Go into Cycles preview render mode and move the rotation slider.
Not so very ejnaren as shame facedly there’s was a bug in v3.0.0 which effected the Z rotation :spin: in a sky texture when switching from Sun+HDR mode to Normal mode. Sorry.
Happily though :D, its fixed in version 3.0.1.
there’s was a bug in v3.0.0 which effected the Z rotation :spin: in a sky texture when switching from Sun+HDR mode to Normal mode. Sorry.