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Smoothing causes trouble..

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Hi everyone!

I am modelling an ultralight (Sting 2000 Carbon) and came across this error... When I export my model without smoothness (Smooth or Meshsmooth) everything works just fine.. The mdl is compiled, the bgl is compiled and my model is working properly... If I try to add smoothness it crashes on the mdl exporting...

I modeled the airplane in Softimage XSI, export it to 3ds and then worked inside Gmax.. One of the errors occured was the ..."colocated vertices in triangle" which I always have when adding smoothing...

Any help will be much appreciated!

Thanks!
 
When you "add smoothing" are you working with polygon smoothing groups, or are you adding a meshsmooth (or similar subdivision) modifier?
 
In my honest opinion, you're better off modeling in the details how you want them to look instead of trying to make it look pretty with a meshsmooth modifier. I'm assuming that the exporter doesn't like the modifier in the stack during export so you either need to collapse it before exporting or come up with an alternative.

good luck,

JonP
 
No idea. But you can try to reset scale and transform. These two buttons saved my bottom quite some times :rolleyes:
 
Could also try selecting all verts and welding at a threshold of .001. This is also a good practice especially after "Attaching" objects to a mesh.

What is the triangle count?
 
I found out that only with smooth I do not get any errors but when I preview my model on MDL Tweaker it does not show the smoothness..

I cannot stay with the model not smoothed.. You can imagine how it will be on FS... :p
 
I figured out the problem and everything is ok now... It isn't a GMax problem, just that mdl tweaker is not reading smoothness..

Now I am trying to find a decent bgl compiler... lol
 
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