New Babylon JS user, looking to get up to speed with this fantastic framework. Have had a play with the Sandbox and online Editor, worked up my own coded model from scratch using the standard components - Box, Sphere etc. My question relates to how to get more complex custom geometry loaded. Very comfortable with 3D CAD - STL/OBJ files, got some exports going from Blender to .Babylon format which import great into Babylon's online Sandbox & Editors. However, I can't seem to get the SceneLoader going to read a file from local C:/ drive. Code extract below:
// Create new Babylon Scene
var scene = new BABYLON.Scene(engine);
// Change scene background color
scene.clearColor = new BABYLON.Color3(1, 1, 1);
// Create and positions a free camera
var camera = new BABYLON.FreeCamera("camera1", new BABYLON.Vector3(0, 10, 0), scene);
// Target the camera to scene origin
camera.setTarget(BABYLON.Vector3.Zero());
// Attach camera to the canvas
camera.attachControl(canvas, true);
// Define built-in 'box' shape.
var box = BABYLON.Mesh.CreateBox("sphere1", 1, scene);
// Define 'ground' plane
var ground = BABYLON.Mesh.CreateGround("ground1", 100, 100, 100, scene);
ground.position.y = 0;
//Load local .babylon file from root Dir
BABYLON.SceneLoader.Load("", "Test.babylon", engine, scene);
My model has a standard box for geometry with ground plane. All renders great in Babylon - until I add the SceneLoader line. When I add this I get stuck on the Babylon Loading intro splash screen (rotating Babylon logo). If I comment out the last line of code above the model renders fine with the box. Have had a look at various forum pages on this and wrecked my brain to point of being stuck e.g: http://www.html5gamedevs.com/topic/20924-stlobj-file-loader/ & https://www.eternalcoding.com/?p=313 I believe Google Chrome may be locking out local file links for security, have tried running in -Allow-Local-File-Access mode, still stuck on loading page. Do I need a web server (I wouldn't know where to start!) or can I run Babylon scenes locally?
Ok - porgress. I got it going using SceneLoader.ImportMesh but I had to setup a simple HTTP Server using Python (v3). This link helped a lot: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/tech-tip-really-simple-http-server-python So you run the Python HTTP server from the directory that the Babylon index.html is based in, and it runs as if HTTP bypassing local file access constraints in Chrome. So my problem is all but answered. I now have my mesh geometry from the Test.Baylon file into my main scene. Still having issues using SceneLoader.Load as the new scene coming in supercedes my original scene and the original geometry disappears. David - I think you're right on the function being needed, although I thought this was optional. As I said, the Tutorial example creates a newScene and renders within the function, in my case I don't know what to do in the function... maybe just 'return'?