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3ds Max 7 Exporting (Read 940 times)

Jan 21^st, 2005 at 12:22am

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Ok....I have a problem. I have 3ds Max 7, aand I think it would be a shame if I could not use it for my modeling in FS. Well, I finally ran across a Direct X exporter "Pandas" so that I can use the file directly from max to make mdl. Well there are a few problems that I am having. The first one is that when I run the file in makemdl, I get this error message......

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Running model

Start! (C:\3dsmax7\meshes\x files go here\exec.X)
Loading X C:\3dsmax7\meshes\x files go here\exec.X...
Processing...
ERROR: Scaling null has a translation, ignoring it
(Part ) Found colocated vertices within triangle
(23.204967,-13.848958,111.317413)
(23.204845,-13.849546,111.317619)
(22.961761,-13.890744,112.527237).
(Part ) Found colocated vertices within triangle
(23.204967,-13.848958,111.317413)
(23.487907,-13.800344,109.909920)
(23.204845,-13.849546,111.317619).
Model units are 1024.00 units/meter
Error!
Error!
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Now, i havent been doing this all that long so I have no idea what that means. I went through and scaled all the parts , I clicked in the reset transform and scale buttons under the hiarchy tab. Now other than that, i dont know what else to do so any help would be appriciated. Thanks

Alan

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Reply #1 - Jan 21^st, 2005 at 8:50am

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your co-located vertices means just that. Apparently you have two vertices (or more) that are barely touching, and need to be welded.

Select the part, note that the message gives you in each case the coordinate of two very close together points. Select, if possible those two points and weld them together.

Alternativelty, select the part, select all vertices and click weld. If you get the same export co-located vertices message for the same points, work with the weld threshold.

Felix/FFDS

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Reply #2 - Jan 21^st, 2005 at 9:39am

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Thankyou for your help...Ill try that!

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Reply #3 - Jan 21^st, 2005 at 4:11pm

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I did what you said and makemdl worked just fine, but in the sim, the model was huge, part of the engine cowling was missing and there was no texture? what could the problem be?

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Reply #4 - Jan 21^st, 2005 at 4:18pm

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Did you scale your model correctly?

Did you set your system units in preferences to 1 unit = 1 meter (you can model separately in feet, etc, but your system units should be 1 unit = 1m)

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Reply #5 - Jan 21^st, 2005 at 6:14pm

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Let me check on that...but what should I do about the no texture in FS???

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Reply #6 - Jan 21^st, 2005 at 6:51pm

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No texture could be something as simple as your texture is in 24-bit color (16M colors) which is about the only format FS doesn't support.

As a test, convert your texture to simple 8-bit (256color) bitmaps.

Also, make sure they're in the \texture subfolder of your aircraft folder.

Felix/FFDS

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Reply #7 - Jan 21^st, 2005 at 9:49pm