headus 3D tools

mokosan · Posts: 150 Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Location: NZ

I have had this issue happening with some meshes lately..

It's hard to describe exactly what is wrong with the geometry...it's as if the vertex numbers have been scattered. Cut here, it cuts elsewhere. The layout appears quite relaxed but the display shows areas of the mesh are stretched. You can cut edges as expected in UV mode, but it fails in 3D mode.

I'm a little concerned about what exactly has happened here.
Anybody got answers?

I have been moving the mesh to UVLayout from Max with the plugin.
Max 2010 and latest version of UVLayout.

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headus · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 6:57 pm Post subject:

It seems to load fine here, and I played around with it for a few minutes with no errors.That's directly into UVLayout, not via the Max plugin. Maybe its the plugin thats causing your problems?

Phil

mokosan · Posts: 150 Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Location: NZ

I just tried several times to load/edit that mesh as an obj and I either get the comment below or it crashes.

Comment:
"1585 odd polys moved from UV space to ED space
Mesh topology too broken to load. Try clean in load options"

I loaded it with the clean option on, tried weld too.

I can load it as NEW, but that was my point. This geometry seems to have been scrambled..

Did you load/edit or load/NEW?
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headus · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 11:57 pm Post subject:

Yes, sorry, I should have said ... I could only open it with "New" selected. There's something about the existing UVs that UVLayout doesn't like. Maybe if you divide the OBJ so there's fewer pieces in each file, you'll be able to find which one it is that's causing the most problems.

Your geometry looks fine, its just the existing UVs that are breaking UVLayout.

Phil