Cannot Read Texture File

[Curtis Amies]

So I’ve got everything installed both in Daz and Blender that needs to be. I’ve been trying to import a Genesis 8 figure into Blender, both morphed and unmorphed, DBZ file and plain duf file, but no matter what, the same error occurs. The file paths have all been set to paths that exist, but it continues to say that it cannot read a texture file. I’ve checked and even opened said texture, it’s not corrupted, and I’ve even deleted my Genesis 8 files and reinstalled them, still no change. I’ve also tried reinstalling Blender, but again, nothing’s changed there. Curious as to whether anyone else has been getting this issue or if it’s just me.

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[Alessandro Padovani]

Of course it’s just you, since the addon works fine for anyone else. If you’re on linux or mac be sure to check “case sensitive“ in the global settings. Otherwise no idea what you could have done wrong, from your description it seems you did all the steps.

p.s. It may also be that blender doesn’t get permission to access the file, if you installed daz studio as administrator then run blender as standard user.

p.p.s. I’m not sure what the last line means: “d:\blender 3\“. Did you install blender in a different drive than daz studio ? Usually all applications are installed in “C:\program files\”. If blender is on a different drive then absolute paths are needed to reference anything, and this may be the culprit.

[Thomas Larsson]

I don’t understand why the texture isn’t found. The code has been changed so a more informative error message is shown if you increase the global verbosity setting to 3. Please report back what it says.

[Curtis Amies]

Absolute Paths have already been set. I’m also going to get the settings sorted and will send another error message.

[Curtis Amies]

Python: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\520AM\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.6\scripts\addons\import_daz\error.py", line 223, in execute
self.run(context)
File "C:\Users\520AM\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.6\scripts\addons\import_daz\main.py", line 774, in run
self.easyImport(context)
File "C:\Users\520AM\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.6\scripts\addons\import_daz\main.py", line 783, in easyImport
bpy.ops.daz.import_daz(
File "D:\Blender 3\3.6\scripts\modules\bpy\ops.py", line 113, in call
ret = op_call(self.idname_py(), None, kw)
RuntimeError: Error: Python: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\520AM\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.6\scripts\addons\import_daz\error.py", line 223, in execute
self.run(context)
File "C:\Users\520AM\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.6\scripts\addons\import_daz\main.py", line 287, in run
self.loadDazFile(filepath, context)
File "C:\Users\520AM\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.6\scripts\addons\import_daz\main.py", line 153, in loadDazFile
asset.build(context)
File "C:\Users\520AM\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.6\scripts\addons\import_daz\cycles.py", line 89, in build
self.tree.build()
File "C:\Users\520AM\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.6\scripts\addons\import_daz\cycles.py", line 330, in build
self.buildLayers()
File "C:\Users\520AM\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.6\scripts\addons\import_daz\cycles.py", line 343, in buildLayers
self.buildLayer("")
File "C:\Users\520AM\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.6\scripts\addons\import_daz\pbr.py", line 127, in buildLayer
self.buildBump(uvname)
File "C:\Users\520AM\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.6\scripts\addons\import_daz\cycles.py", line 652, in buildBump
self.bumpval,self.bumptex, = self.getColorTex("getChannelBump", "NONE", 0, False)
File "C:\Users\520AM\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.6\scripts\addons\import_daz\cycles.py", line 903, in getColorTex
tex = self.addTexImageNode(channel, colorSpace, texslot, isMask)
File "C:\Users\520AM\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.6\scripts\addons\import_daz\cycles.py", line 1907, in addTexImageNode
return newTexture(assets[0], maps[0])
File "C:\Users\520AM\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.6\scripts\addons\import_daz\cycles.py", line 1888, in newTexture
innode,texnode,outnode,isnew = self.addSingleTexture(col, asset, map, colorSpace)
File "C:\Users\520AM\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.6\scripts\addons\import_daz\cycles.py", line 1815, in addSingleTexture
img,imgname = asset.buildImage(colorSpace)
File "C:\Users\520AM\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.6\scripts\addons\import_daz\material.py", line 838, in buildImage
self.image = self.map.build()
File "C:\Users\520AM\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.6\scripts\addons\import_daz\material.py", line 727, in build
self.image = getImage(self.url)
File "C:\Users\520AM\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.6\scripts\addons\import_daz\material.py", line 737, in getImage
return loadImage(url)
File "C:\Users\520AM\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.6\scripts\addons\import_daz\material.py", line 747, in loadImage
img = bpy.data.images.load(filepath)
RuntimeError: Error: Cannot read ‘/Runtime/Textures/DAZ/Characters/Genesis8/FemaleBase/G8FBaseTorsoMapB_1002.jpg': No such file or directory
Location: D:\Blender 3\3.6\scripts\modules\bpy\ops.py:113

As far as I can tell, even having changed the global verbose setting to 3, there isn’t any difference with the logs… Personally, I’m curious why it’s trying to find something without going through one of the drives on the computer. All the paths have a drive specified.

[Thomas Larsson]

It seems like you don’t have the latest development version. The line

img = bpy.data.images.load(filepath)

is on line 746, not 747, of material.py.

https://bitbucket.org/Diffeomorphic/import_daz/src/master/material.py

[Curtis Amies]

Well… just installed the latest dev version and it fixed it. I feel kinda stupid, but hey, I guess these things happen. Thanks for the help.