solved Absolute Newbie Question: Basic Scene, Running static HTML with babylon.js locally (no localserver) - fails with Uncaught TypeError: scene.render is not a function

[CGinSeattle]

I know something seems to be wrong here. I"m using the simpliest example, the one in the beginning docs, the full HTML given there.

I am running static.

I've managed to get the HTML to load statically (i.e. no localserver, no webserver, just off the desktop) and have the generated babylon.js file in the same directory as the index.html page.

I know it's loading and finding the .js file. It fails in the same place whether I use my custom generated babylon js file or if I point the page to the same babylon.js file that the playground uses.

the error from the inspector is:

Uncaught TypeError: scene.render is not a function

I am running in Chrome, but I have no issues with running Playground in Chrome. Also the HTML does the same thing in IE (though it's debugger picks up no errors, just won't run beyond creating the canvas). 

Error reported from Chrome:

BJS - [17:31:37]: Babylon.js engine (v3.1-alpha) launched
index.html:79 Uncaught TypeError: scene.render is not a function
    at index.html:79
    at r._renderLoop (babylon.js:4)

It points at the line in index.html (at scene.render)

      engine.runRenderLoop(function () { // Register a render loop to repeatedly render the scene
                    scene.render();
            });

Attaching the index.html file.

Any ideas? I don't want to have to deal with localserver. And am working on a way to load OBJ files (that's how I got here. I wanted to see if I could get the objloader to work from the desktop, since I cannot get it to work in the Playground via file chooser. I can only get .babylon files to load successfully in that case.)

If you're curious about that, see: https://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#6N13NV#7

So I thought I would try a different tack. After all, I should be able to load .js files locally (static HTML), including the objloader extension. But I didn't anticipate that I would have problems with getting babylon.js to work in that situation.

 It seems it must be something simple, after all this is just the beginner sample that the docs list. Nothing fancy. But after a number of hours of searching forums and experimenting, I'm out of ideas.

Thanks!

 

index.html

[Gijs]

You have

var scene = createScene; //Call the createScene function

Which should be

var scene = createScene(); //Call the createScene function

I got it to work that way

[CGinSeattle]

@Gijs Perfect! That did it! Thank you so much!! I don't have enough experience yet with babylonJS to spot such a simple fix, so thank you!

@Deltakosh This page is where I got the HTML. http://babylonjsguide.github.io/begins/Introducing_Babylonjs  You may want to ask the doc writers to update it to the correct call and the correct url for babylon.js online. It's a minor thing, of course, but for newbies like me, that don't know any better, it might be helpful... 

 

[adam]

I think those docs were created by @JohnK  

I submitted a PR with the fix.

 

[JohnK]

@CGinSeattle sorry about that PRed