🧵#Blender deployement

Yes, it might be that your scene is too large. Can you check the logs on your glitch edit page?

Glitch has an upper limit to about 30-40 mb.

But for previewing you can also use the local server. Did you try that? Or do you want to share it with others?

Yes I tried local as well but the page was blank

Maybe there are other tutorials that I can try?

the scene is pretty simple I don't think it should be a problem unless I did something wrong

When it was blank did the console window print any error?

Can you send a screenshot from the console in browser + the directory where your web project is in?

Let me know if that helps?

I didn't mean the blender console, there is a terminal or console window open when you start the local server. It might be minimized

ooh

Like a terminal window?

Or inside blender

Yes like a terminal window

Nothing really happened on screen when I took any of the actions under the needle engine, if I deploy the glitch its the sandbox file

You started the local server 🙂 its running

ooo i seee

Ok so something broke during installation. Try closing the server and deleting the node_modules folder AND the package.lock.json (NOT package.json !!! 🙂 ) in the web directory

and then click the start local srver button again

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that's a odd message, never saw this before 🤔 (symlink already exists)

It's been a while since ive used blender 😆 thanks for bearing with me

would it be easier to create a new project folder?

If you're more familiar with Unity it might be easier to get started

yes, just select a different directory

ok, made a new folder. I click Genrate Web Project

VITE v4.3.9 ready in 1438 ms

➜ Local: https://localhost:3000/ ➜ Network: https://192.168.1.187:3000/ ➜ Network: https://169.254.189.111:3000/ ➜ press h to show help [1] + suspended (tty output) which npm start seanheath@Mac New Folder %

What do you mean?

I made a new project and generated web, this was the terminal result

I was using a newer version of blender, installed 4.2 (from 4.3) could that be an issue?

Perfect then just open the local or network url in your browser

4.2 should be good

Open this when the local server runs: https://192.168.1.187:3000/

It says this site can't be reached

refused to connect

I tried m y laptop with a different blender file and when I view live from glitch its still the sandbox

Thats just the local ssl warning, see the faq about: There's a SSL error when opening the local website https://engine.needle.tools/docs/faq.html#there-s-a-ssl-error-when-opening-the-local-website

Btw can you share a bit about what youre looking for / what you're trying to build?

I’ll check that out! I’m looking to build a sandbox of sorts, something similar to the cactus scene but just trying to learn the workflow for now then start adding some complexity. Ideally I’d like to build different scenes and be able to save/ come back to modify

I don’t think it was a ssl issue, it didn’t give me the option to proceed

Can you show a screenshot?

<@269908931105652747> it seems like there was a bug in the publish process and an invalid version got published. I’m very sorry - a new version will be available shortly

Please click Install Preview Server in Blender and then start your server again. It should install the right version then and work

Thanks! The issue was the server was already running something, so I guess I have to kill the server before previewing in browser

Or does the install preview server create a new instance on local host? Is it possible to have multiple projects open simultaneously?

You have to stop the server (using the Stop Server button) yes.

It's possible to run multiple projects if you modify the port in the vite.config.js file that is inside each of your web projects - but honestly I've never tested this with the Blender addon (theoretically you could also just navigate to each web project and run npm start in the directory to start the local server with the port you configured if you need that for some reason)