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Thanks...and small triangles missing...

Indiafoxtecho

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First and foremost THANK YOU Arno for such a great tool.
It has been really useful for me many times and I have really appreciated your time and effort developing it.

Recently I have been infected with a nasty malware which encrypted all of my source files (unfortunately including backup drive which was connected at the time of infection) - on the good side, most of these were all old projects that were finished.

In a couple of cases so I have been using Model Converter X in order to recover the geometry by exporting them to 3DS files. This worked really well for external models and I am very happy for this (albeit it would have been great if the animations were supported....).

Unfortunately, this did not work as well for the virtual cockpits - most of the larger elements of the geometry are OK...but all the small details are not useable: there are a lot of missing triangles and basically I'll need to redo all the buttons and switches...
I am not sure I can tell why some triangles are missing and some others don't (most of them are really small or part of "hemispheres").
Is there a way to improve the exporting accuracy?

In any case, again, THANKS A LOT.
 
Not sure if it will fix your issue but under "Options" > "ObjectModel settings" you can adjust "SmallTriangleLimit" (area below which a triangle is considered small and removed while optimizing).
 
Boy - I have not noticed that option... not sure it if affects the .3DS export, but hopefully it does.... will try tonight.
 
Apparently it works!
I have reduced the mimum triangle limit by few orders of magnitude and the .3DS file now has the correct geometry. Thank you - this saved me some additional work! Much appreciated!
 
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