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Posted by fanis1633 at Sep 4, 2023, 10:34:27 AM
Batch edit stored points of view?
Hello,

I am trying to create multiple points of view, 3 in each 1st day of each month of the year at the following times: 12pm, 4pm, 6pm.

The end goal is to be able to use "Create Photos at points of view" for all of them, to show how the shading for a house will look at those times of the year.

I realize I can create those manually by going to "Create Photo..." and setting the datetime in the dialog, closing it, then clicking on "Store point of view...".

I tried to make this more efficient by the following process:

1. renamed the file.sh3d to file.zip
2. opened and edited the Home.xml in it.
3. Looking at my already saved <observerCamera attribute='storedCamera'> nodes, I created new copies of them at the required times (using the correct unixtime in milliseconds) and writing the appropriate 'name' for each one, and also slightly changed each "id" to make it unique.
4. readd Home.xml in the zip file overwriting existing one
5. rename the zip back to file.sh3d

However, Sweethome3d won't open this file any more: "Can't open home file.sh3d". I also tried deleting from the zip file "Home" in case it needs to be recreated by using "Home.xml", without success.

I am missing something and would appreciate any pointers. Must the <observerCamera> ids match a certain specification? Is there a better way to do this?


<observerCamera attribute="storedCamera" fixedSize="true" id="observerCamera-67b4d3ab-e3a1-4f1f-b796-7d0733c77aag" name="outdoors - January 1st at 12:00" renderer="com.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.YafarayRenderer" time="1672574400000"/>
<observerCamera attribute="storedCamera" fixedSize="true" id="observerCamera-67b4d3ab-e3a1-4f1f-b796-7d0733c77aah" name="outdoors - January 1st at 16:00" renderer="com.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.YafarayRenderer" time="1672588800000"/>
<observerCamera attribute="storedCamera" fixedSize="true" id="observerCamera-67b4d3ab-e3a1-4f1f-b796-7d0733c77aai" name="outdoors - January 1st at 18:00" renderer="com.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.YafarayRenderer" time="1672596000000"/>
<observerCamera attribute="storedCamera" fixedSize="true" id="observerCamera-67b4d3ab-e3a1-4f1f-b796-7d0733c77aaj" name="outdoors - March 1st at 12:00" renderer="com.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.YafarayRenderer" time="1677672000000"/>
<observerCamera attribute="storedCamera" fixedSize="true" id="observerCamera-67b4d3ab-e3a1-4f1f-b796-7d0733c77aak" name="outdoors - March 1st at 16:00" renderer="com.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.YafarayRenderer" time="1677686400000"/>
<observerCamera attribute="storedCamera" fixedSize="true" id="observerCamera-67b4d3ab-e3a1-4f1f-b796-7d0733c77aal" name="outdoors - March 1st at 18:00" renderer="com.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.YafarayRenderer" time="1677693600000"/>
<observerCamera attribute="storedCamera" fixedSize="true" id="observerCamera-67b4d3ab-e3a1-4f1f-b796-7d0733c77aam" name="outdoors - June 1st at 12:00" renderer="com.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.YafarayRenderer" time="1685620800000"/>
<observerCamera attribute="storedCamera" fixedSize="true" id="observerCamera-67b4d3ab-e3a1-4f1f-b796-7d0733c77aan" name="outdoors - June 1st at 16:00" renderer="com.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.YafarayRenderer" time="1685635200000"/>
<observerCamera attribute="storedCamera" fixedSize="true" id="observerCamera-67b4d3ab-e3a1-4f1f-b796-7d0733c77aao" name="outdoors - June 1st at 18:00" renderer="com.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.YafarayRenderer" time="1685642400000"/>
<observerCamera attribute="storedCamera" fixedSize="true" id="observerCamera-67b4d3ab-e3a1-4f1f-b796-7d0733c77aap" name="outdoors - July 1st at 12:00" renderer="com.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.YafarayRenderer" time="1688212800000"/>
<observerCamera attribute="storedCamera" fixedSize="true" id="observerCamera-67b4d3ab-e3a1-4f1f-b796-7d0733c77aaq" name="outdoors - July 1st at 16:00" renderer="com.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.YafarayRenderer" time="1688227200000"/>
<observerCamera attribute="storedCamera" fixedSize="true" id="observerCamera-67b4d3ab-e3a1-4f1f-b796-7d0733c77aar" name="outdoors - July 1st at 18:00" renderer="com.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.YafarayRenderer" time="1688234400000"/>
<observerCamera attribute="storedCamera" fixedSize="true" id="observerCamera-67b4d3ab-e3a1-4f1f-b796-7d0733c77aas" name="outdoors - August 1st at 12:00" renderer="com.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.YafarayRenderer" time="1690891200000"/>
<observerCamera attribute="storedCamera" fixedSize="true" id="observerCamera-67b4d3ab-e3a1-4f1f-b796-7d0733c77aat" name="outdoors - August 1st at 16:00" renderer="com.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.YafarayRenderer" time="1690905600000"/>
<observerCamera attribute="storedCamera" fixedSize="true" id="observerCamera-67b4d3ab-e3a1-4f1f-b796-7d0733c77aau" name="outdoors - August 1st at 18:00" renderer="com.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.YafarayRenderer" time="1690912800000"/>
<observerCamera attribute="storedCamera" fixedSize="true" id="observerCamera-67b4d3ab-e3a1-4f1f-b796-7d0733c77aav" name="outdoors - September 1st at 12:00" renderer="com.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.YafarayRenderer" time="1693569600000"/>
<observerCamera attribute="storedCamera" fixedSize="true" id="observerCamera-67b4d3ab-e3a1-4f1f-b796-7d0733c77aaw" name="outdoors - September 1st at 16:00" renderer="com.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.YafarayRenderer" time="1693584000000"/>
<observerCamera attribute="storedCamera" fixedSize="true" id="observerCamera-67b4d3ab-e3a1-4f1f-b796-7d0733c77aax" name="outdoors - September 1st at 18:00" renderer="com.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.YafarayRenderer" time="1693591200000"/>
<observerCamera attribute="storedCamera" fixedSize="true" id="observerCamera-67b4d3ab-e3a1-4f1f-b796-7d0733c77aay" name="outdoors - October 1st at 12:00" renderer="com.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.YafarayRenderer" time="1696161600000"/>
<observerCamera attribute="storedCamera" fixedSize="true" id="observerCamera-67b4d3ab-e3a1-4f1f-b796-7d0733c77aaz" name="outdoors - October 1st at 16:00" renderer="com.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.YafarayRenderer" time="1696176000000"/>
<observerCamera attribute="storedCamera" fixedSize="true" id="observerCamera-67b4d3ab-e3a1-4f1f-b796-7d0733c77aaa" name="outdoors - October 1st at 18:00" renderer="com.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.YafarayRenderer" time="1696183200000"/>
<observerCamera attribute="storedCamera" fixedSize="true" id="observerCamera-67b4d3ab-e3a1-4f1f-b796-7d0733c77aab" name="outdoors - December 1st at 12:00" renderer="com.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.YafarayRenderer" time="1701432000000"/>
<observerCamera attribute="storedCamera" fixedSize="true" id="observerCamera-67b4d3ab-e3a1-4f1f-b796-7d0733c77aac" name="outdoors - December 1st at 16:00" renderer="com.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.YafarayRenderer" time="1701446400000"/>
<observerCamera attribute="storedCamera" fixedSize="true" id="observerCamera-67b4d3ab-e3a1-4f1f-b796-7d0733c77aad" name="outdoors - December 1st at 18:00" renderer="com.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.YafarayRenderer" time="1701453600000"/>

Posted by Daniels118 at Sep 4, 2023, 2:28:24 PM
Re: Batch edit stored points of view?
Are you recreating the zip file or adding the new home.xml to the existing zip? The latter doesn't work with SH3D, you have to extract all the content to a folder and then zip it again.

Posted by fanis1633 at Sep 4, 2023, 3:20:57 PM
Re: Batch edit stored points of view?
I was adding (and overwriting) the updated home.xml into the existing .zip. I tried what you suggested but I still get the same error.

I wonder if SH3D does some other validation/parity checking on Home.xml?

Posted by Daniels118 at Sep 4, 2023, 6:11:21 PM
Re: Batch edit stored points of view?
As far as I know validation occurrs on every file except home.xml. Maybe you have some syntax error. Can you share the sh3d file?

Posted by fanis1633 at Sep 5, 2023, 9:23:48 AM
Re: Batch edit stored points of view?
I'm not sure how I missed it before, since I was just copying an existing XML node called <observerCamera attribute="storedCamera">, but now I notice that my other cameras have a few more attributes: lens,x,y,z,yaw,pitch,fieldOfView. I added these to my new observerCamera nodes in Home.xml and it loaded just fine, so case closed.


<observerCamera attribute='storedCamera' id='observerCamera-67b4d3ab-e3a1-4f1f-b796-7d0733c77aak' name='panokato - outdoors - March 1st at 16:00' lens='PINHOLE' x='2385.7852' y='2180.771' z='451.00003' yaw='14.98327' pitch='0.21687716' fieldOfView='1.3962634' time='1677686400000' fixedSize='true' renderer='com.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.YafarayRenderer'/>


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