hey guys, a weird modeling problem

#1 Well unfortunately your description of your problem does not help very much. You might be best off uploading your file to a site somewhere so that we can check it out and give you better suggestions.

The only thing that I can think of off the top of my head is that you have a segmented mesh and the parts of your characters body (ie. head, arms, body) have verticies that sometimes lie on the same (or similar) world space coordinates. This can sometimes cause the exporter to misread your model data because the exporter is only accurate to so many digits and verticies that are very close to one another can be misread. You might want to try connecting your segmented character into a single mesh and exporting, this would at least let you know if the problem is with your model or something else in the scene.

Edit: What does your dump.dmp file tell you when you export?

Logan

#2 hey logan, thanks for the response...... I'm pretty sure its not the problem you described, I alrady checked that, I didnt combine the shape into one mesh, but tried separating each of the body parts a considerable distance exporting them... no luck :( ..... but ya, I checked the dump file, it keeps stopping on the third pass, collapsing unneeded nodes....

Third pass: Collapsing unneeded nodes...

Removing node "Bip01"
Removing node "Dummy05"
Removing node "Bip01 R Finger0"
Removing node "Dummy01"
Removing node "Bip01 L Finger0"
Removing node "Dummy02"
Removing node "Bip01 L Toe0"
Removing node "Bip01 L Toe01"
Removing node "Bip01 L Toe02"
Removing node "Dummy04"
Removing node "Bip01 R Toe0"
Removing node "Bip01 R Toe01"
Removing node "Bip01 R Toe02"
Removing node "Dummy03"
Adding mesh of size 142 to object "right eye".
Adding mesh of size 140 to object "right eye".
Adding mesh of size 137 to object "right eye".
Adding mesh of size 135 to object "right eye".
Adding mesh of size 132 to object "right eye".
Adding mesh of size 130 to object "right eye".
Adding mesh of size 128 to object "right eye".
Adding mesh of size 126 to object "right eye".
Adding mesh of size 123 to object "right eye".
Adding mesh of size 121 to object "right eye".
Adding mesh of size 119 to object "right eye".
Adding mesh of size 117 to object "right eye".
Adding mesh of size 114 to object "right eye".
Adding mesh of size 112 to object "right eye".
Adding mesh of size 108 to object "right eye".
Adding mesh of size 105 to object "right eye".
Adding mesh of size 103 to object "right eye".
Adding mesh of size 99 to object "right eye".
Adding mesh of size 96 to object "right eye".


thats all it gives me for the third pass, then it just stops....... ummmm...... any ideas?

#3 is right eye is a mesh it should be something like righy_eye110 you need those detail numbers on the mesh at worst send it to me and I'll take a look

#4 oh dont worry, I have them there, in fact the entire mesh's naming structure is correct with detail levels and everything, but even if it wasnt, the mesh would simply just not show up in the game, it wouldnt keep the object from exporting.... besides I've gotten all the individual meshes to export and show up..... just not all together :(.... its a real stumper :\... anyway, thanks for the reply

#5 offer still stands if you want me to look at it

#6 thanks man, this is really nice of you... I just emailed the model to you...... thanks again man, I really appriciate it

#7 done and done

#8 oh thanks man, you've been a giant help, I probably never would have tried that, oh, and I checked out your site, haha, I like the idea, ji joe, ninja turtles, transformers, I grew up on all that crap...... I dont really know what I could help with, but I'd like to do something.... you can check out some of my other work at http://planbgames.tripod.com if you think I'm good enough, then I'll be happy to help :)..... thanks again

#9 NICE site too, I want a shout out for fixing the model :-) on the progress page. If you really are serious about helping out just follow the links here on GG and apply to the "Yo Joe Stuff" ad, hell bring your team too.