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[oesponda]

Hello,

I'm having a big problem here: Ive been working in a very complex model and after many hours it's finally done. The problem is that after I export the file as OBJ and try to read it in Softimage, all the objects are merged. The original obj has ~230 objects and that's how I need the exported mesh. I tried exporting it, updating the original OBJ, and the result is the same.

I saved a uvl file as well, and I can see all of the objects in the polygon group section but no matter what i do, it's always exported as a single object in the obj file.

Original obj's size it's ~30 MB, and after I export/update the file, the size goes down to ~14 MB.

If I import the original file into Softimage, it comes as expected, all of the objects are there, but if import either the exported obj or the updated obj, it comes as a single object.

Is there any other thing/tip/trick to try?

Please help Phil, It took me several hours to finish and honestly I really want to avoid having to do it again...

Unfortunately I cant share the model or screenshots in the forum (NDA), but I could send it to you privately.


Thanks in advance,
Orlando.

PS. I hope this is the right section for this post..

[oesponda]

Just to add some more info:

If I load the original OBJ in uvlayout and export it, It will export all of the objects as well. But of course, the original mesh has no uvs

I'm using v2.07.00


Orlando.

[headus]

First I just wanted to double check you're using the "Update" button in UVLayout? Select the original OBJ file (the one saved out initially from Soft), and a copy of that is made with UVs added.

Do a test with a smaller scene, half a dozen separate objects, even if they're just cubes that would be enough. If you flatten those out in UVLayout and load that into Soft and they're joined together, you can send me those files (i.e. the original OBJ, and the "Update" one).

My initial thoughts are that the Soft OBJ importer is doing something odd when the object has UVs, but without seeing all of the OBJ files, I cant be 100% sure the blame isn't with UVLayout yet.

Phil

[oesponda]

Thanks for answering Phil,

[headus]

"This is a particular case, where none of the methods described above seem to work."

Ahhh, OK ... when you loaded the mesh into UVLayout initially, did you have to use "Clean" to get it in? That removes odd polygons (i.e. duplicates) and non-manifold edges, but the consequence of that is that the number of polys in the original OBJ is different to the cleaned mesh now loaded in UVLayout, and that sometimes causes the Update to fail.

Yeah, so it sounds like you'll probably need to send me the files so I can fix it for you (original OBJ, UVL and "Update" OBJ). It sounds like they're huge though, so email is probably not best. Do you have a file drop link you can email me, or I can send you our own FTP drop site details.



Phil

[oesponda]

No, I didnt have to clean it. It was imported flawlessly (as usual).

Many thanks, I will email you a link to the files.


Orlando.