SH3D portable - Videos are created but storing results in 0 byte files

[alexey7783]

Hi guys,

I am using SH3D on my home PC with a standard installation, everything works fine. I have access to a more powerfull PC which I than use for rendering. The problem is:

- I'm opening 3H3D portable as admin (64bit, stored on the HDD of the powerfull PC) I am not allowed to install SH3D on this PC
- Opening my saved files from home PC -> works
- Creating videos works, but when I want to save them 0byte mov files are generated, regardless where I put them

I have local admin rights on this PC and I also start SH3D as admin. I also have write/read priviliges on the HDD drive.

Has anyone of you ever experiences that? What was the solution?

My best regards

Alex

[alexey7783]

Hello again,

can nobody help me? Images are saved correctly by the way, but that is not what I need from the portable version.

Maybe somebody can tell me where the temporary files for the video creation are stored for the portable version. Maybe it is a different one and I need to give special right to this folder.

Thank you for your help and my best regards

Alex

[Puybaret]

Does the video creation seem to last at a few minutes, or does the Save button become activated quite quickly?

[alexey7783]

After clicking on start he computes the frames (e.g 70/131) and the second he reaches the final frame (131/131) the save button is activated immediately

[Puybaret]

The computed video is stored in a subfolder of
C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\eTeks\Sweet Home 3D\work
Could you check if the size of the mov file in that folder is 0 or not, before you click on Save button?

[alexey7783]

Hm ok, this folder is not created. There is no eTeks folder in the Roaming folder. Seems like the system is blocking the application from creating this folder, right? But I used right-click and start as administrator

Too bad...

[Puybaret]

It's quite strange because if the work folder couldn't be created, I think that the video creation process would abort much earlier.
Maybe, try to set the com.eteks.sweethome3d.applicationFolders Java system property equal to a folder where you're sure you can write, for example by writing:

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-Dcom.eteks.sweethome3d.applicationFolders=C:\Windows\Temp

in a text file named SweetHome3D.l4j.ini and saved in the same directory as SweetHome3D executable files.

[alexey7783]

Sorry for my late reply, but I was on Holiday

I did as you recommended, but it's still not working. And when I open the temp folder (I used one on my secondary HDD D:\temp where I definetly ) there is no file created. And after SH3D finished Rendering saving the file still leads to 0byte files

I saved the SweetHome3D.l4j.ini file with this line

-Dcom.eteks.sweethome3d.applicationFolders=D:\temp

Oh man, this is really a pity...