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exporting from maya collision problems

by Jake london · in Torque 3D Professional · 09/24/2009 (1:51 pm) · 9 replies

I'm having a problem exporting DTS files from maya, basically i have a shape, a slightly complex block, and various other small blocks intersecting it, and a chair, now i have created a simple collision mesh for it, i embedded the entire shape and duplicated the detail1 to Collision_1 and renamed the collision block to Col_1, now the problem is if i select from base 1 and export, the player collides but nothing is visible except one of the small blocks. but if i select from start01 and export selection it exports the shape, collision mesh is visible and all others meshes, but wont collide.
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Torque 3D Owner Jake london
#1
09/25/2009 (2:39 pm)
i've exhausted all my options and this happens with anything i try and export so if someone can help me please help me.

Thanks

Torque Owner Ryan Neighbour
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#2
09/26/2009 (6:29 am)
My copy of Maya should hopefully be getting here in a week or so. If you haven't managed to get it figured out by then I'd be glad to poke at it with a stick for you.

Torque 3D Owner Jake london
#3
09/26/2009 (8:21 am)
thanks, im lost on this subject. ive followed all the tutorials but no luck.

Torque 3D Owner jeepee
#4
09/26/2009 (3:47 pm)
Did you have a look at these tutorials?

http://www.gearworxprod.com/index.php?do=catalog&c=free_tutorials


Torque 3D Owner Jake london
#5
09/28/2009 (12:06 pm)
yes i did, there were 2 tutorial i found that one, and one referred to by the documentation. no luck with either.

Torque Owner Rick Church
Bare Bone Games
#6
09/28/2009 (2:43 pm)
Just to avoid overlooking the obvious, what did you set the objects collision to in the Torque Editor and did you try playing with different settings?

Torque 3D Owner Jake london
#7
09/30/2009 (6:37 am)
yes, ive looked and tried playing with all diffrent settings i exausted my options before posting here. as i said the mesh comes out when i export it selecting base in the hiearchy, but the model except for one of the blocks doesnt so its an invisible mesh with a collision mesh. on the other hand if i select from base the entire model and collision mesh get rendered but the collision mesh is just a normal textured mesh

Torque Owner Rick Church
Bare Bone Games
#8
09/30/2009 (12:16 pm)
What version of Maya?

Have you tried the Collada export?

I've had better - consistent - results using Collada then using the DTS exporter.

Torque 3D Owner Jake london
#9
10/06/2009 (5:11 am)
yes i have, but ive finally figured it out my naming conventions were a bit out of wack, i rearranged a redid it its working fine now thanks!