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Horrible manglifying of my mesh

by Daniel Buckmaster · in Artist Corner · 12/20/2006 (7:46 am) · 4 replies

I have a mesh that I'm very proud of, which in't terribly complicated, and I'm using the .92 exporter to get it into Torque. However, when I create one in the world editor creator, it appears horribly disfigured, with all manner of problems with triangles being attached to things they shouldn't be. There's also a huge plane extending out to infinity that I definately don't remember putting in the mesh.

I remember a thread with a similar problem, but I can't for the life of me find it. I remember that the advice was to use the .921 exporter, but that yields the same sorts of problems. Any suggestions?
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    Torque Owner Aaron E
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    #1
    12/20/2006 (8:56 am)
    I don't know anything about blender, but what you're describing sounds a lot like what happens whenever I try to export a mesh with more than 10,000 triangles from gameSpace.

    If I can ask, how many polygons are you pushing with the offending mesh?

    [Edit: apparently, 'triangles' has an 'r' in it]

    Torque Owner Redacted
    #2
    12/20/2006 (12:16 pm)
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    Torque 3D Owner Tony Richards
    #3
    12/20/2006 (12:46 pm)
    Make sure all of your vertices are assigned at least a weight > 0 to at least one vertex group / node. I generally create a root node (named "root") that doesn't get any animations and assign all vertices to the "root" vertex group with a really small weight like 0.01.

    Torque Owner Daniel Buckmaster
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    #4
    12/21/2006 (12:36 am)
    Quote:I don't know anything about blender, but what you're describing sounds a lot like what happens whenever I try to export a mesh with more than 10,000 triangles from gameSpace.
    Only 1520 tris, without any optimisation. I'm modeling in quads, so I just did a 'quads->tris' to quickly check the number. 914 quads, in case you're wondering.

    Quote:Make sure all of your vertices are assigned at least a weight > 0 to at least one vertex group / node. I generally create a root node (named "root") that doesn't get any animations and assign all vertices to the "root" vertex group with a really small weight like 0.01.
    They should be, but I'll try that, thanks.