Custom shapes disappear

Support Animation and Rigging
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Hi,

Like in topic, just disappearing bone shape’s. I don’t link object’s, I append it. It alway’s reset and remove shape object from scene. In console I get :

“ID user decrement error: (here shape names)”

I try everything what I can, can anyone help, without shapes, I cant animate. Rig was made with rigify somwhere January this year. Rig work’s, shapes are still reseting.

Cheers

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Did you append the objects referenced by the Bone Shape parameter? Unless they exist somewhere in your Scene(s) they will appear to be missing. Sorry if I misunderstood your explanation.

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Everything is in scene when appended, after saving and reopen, shapes and shape objects just disappear.
I don’t link anything, everything is ok, only after reopen saved file, just pufff, reassigning also doesn’t work, the same scenario, reopen and puff.

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I think this is something that can’t be analyzed without seeing the file, can you post a .blend?

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But don’t open it, start new scene and append from “OBJECT” folder in blend file.

Link- http://speedy.sh/UpqWV/Postac-1-copy.zip

Hope You can help

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Sorry, I’m not going to d/l another app just to get your file. How big is your .blend? Maybe try pasteall.org?

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Sorry for that, speedy work’s well, propably some type of advertise show up, anyway, below link to pasteall:

http://www.pasteall.org/blend/24295

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I’m sure speedy’s works OK but it requires a download app to work. Pasteall is more friendly in that regard. I have the file but can’t look at it right now as Blender is ultra-busy with a large and very RAM-hungry rendering for a job, but I’ll get on it soon as possible. Maybe someone else can take a look also.

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Thank You very much for Your concern. I will wait, because this is very strange behavior.

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I opened your file and took a look at the rig and the WGT- shapes, all in order. I then appended the rig (and only the rig) as an object to a New file, and that brought all the shapes along with it, as expected. Everything seems to work fine. I then closed out that file with the appended stuff, and then reopened it – all was still in place as I left it.

Not sure where your behavior is coming from since I can’t replicate it, but take a look at your User Prefs, perhaps there is some setting or option that is affecting the persistence of the WGT- objects?

I’ve attached my file with the appended rig: Postac_1_test.blend (958 KB)

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The same thing, after resaving “LIB error” and shapes are gone.
I load factory settings, cleanup Blender config, doesn’t work. I don’t know what is wrong.
Have You Blender form blender.org, org graphicall?

Best,
Adrian.

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Wait, I somehow get work it with Your setup. Now it stay’s, I don’t really know what it Was, and maybe is, but work’s.
You help me a lot, thank You very, very much chipmasque!!!

Best wishes,
Adrian.

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I’m using the 2.68a release from blender.org, build r58537

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It still occurs, few time was fine, and now puff, "object’s lost from scene: “scene”.
But Your setup chipmasque is good, i just need to reimport rig. Good that this job is a quick one.

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My rig has the same error: all the shapes show the ID user decrement error, I’ve isolated the problem.
The error occur when I go into the Game engine (key P): after this every shape that had 2 users, now have only 1. I press again P and then every shape has 0 users, if I save and reopen Blender deletes them…

Any explanation or idea?
Thanks
Sparazza

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@ sparazza: If this can be replicated in a separate file, submit it to the bug tracker, it sounds very buggish to me.

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Yep, it can be replicated in Blender 2.68.5 SVN. These are the steps:

  • New file
  • New shape (a circle bezier should be fine) or new mesh (a cube)
  • New armature
  • Select Bone
  • Bone panel
  • Custom shape : Circle or Cube
  • Check the number of users in the Circle(or cube), should be 2
  • Press P to play, ESC and check the users(deselect and reselect the shape or cube), should be one. P again and we are at 0 user
  • If you save and reload the circle or cube should have been gone forever… :eek:

I will submit a bug ASAP

Sparazza