Talk:Blender 3D: Noob to Pro/Import and Render a SolidWorks Model

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This should be merged into the Blender 3D book. --Mijokijo 23:29, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Agree. Quality tutorial BTW. Congratulations! :)--Popski 09:20, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the compliment! I'm not sure where it would fit in the Blender 3D book, because it's rather a quick case-study tutorial. It doesn't belong in the Noob to Pro section anyway, because regular Blenderheads have no use for this (apart from the hdri section, a subject on which I haven't found decent tutorials - the biorust.com tutorial isn't worth much IMO)... --1983 22:00, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Done :o) --1983 11:16, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

*Crash*
Hello i am probably jumping the gun, but am trying to setup up a simple yayfray render, with the hdr image as instructed in this tut, i get to applying the hdr image, setting all the yayfray stuff cache ect, and i hit the old f12 and bam "windows is sorry" shut blender down ect wtf help stephen@eggandmilk.co.za
 * I had the same problem, but you just have to install Yafray. I was assuming that Blender installed it, but seemingly that's not true.

Thanks!
Thanks so much for this tutorial. I had never used Blender before and was able to pick it right up. The instructions were very clear and worked perfectly for the medical device rendering that I urgently needed for work

blue pic
Hey,

I have followed yourre instructions, but my pic came out blue, with almost no shade or textures, i can't figure out what Ive done wrong? does anyone know what to change??

rudivanerp@gmail.com

Russian?
What is this?

Рендер с добовленными матерьялами Для визуализации, вы можете непосредственно нажать F12, или сначала зайти в установки визуализации(F10). Because of the render settings we use (GI and an HDRI environment), my render took about 3 minutes on a AMD64 3200 [...]

Black render
I followed everything to the letter yet got a black render. No model, no ground plane, nothing :-( Have I missed something here? I'm using Blender 2.48a and Yafaray r299.


 * UPDATE* I double checked Yafaray was installed, the script is there but Blender's console reports this:

''Couldn't FIND registry key for yafray, is it installed? Error loading yafray plugin: The specified module could not be found.''

It also can't find Python but it is also installed!! I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling them all to no avail.

I finally downloaded Yafray (NOT Yafaray) and it all worked with Python 2.5.4 I think I might give up though since the render output is just fog. Thanks for the tutorial anyway, I guess it helped some people.
 * Update 2*