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Havie polycounter lvl 6
Hello,
I am looking for someone who has a good understand of 3ds max and especially troubleshooting errors like "degenerate triangles that are co-linear" 

I am creating a custom map for Shogun2 in 3ds max and when I try to pass it through the converter through the game I get nonstop errors. I find the verts and try to fix them but ill have to admit I dont really know the best way... i kinda just cut in more triangles.. and its really just guess work for me.

I'm looking for someone who could help me fix all these issues,

3DS max 2010 would be a huge plus, although I can also save as 2012,2013 and 2014 i believe.

heres a look at the the error example, and the map I am working with.
http://i.imgur.com/T6cnoVP.png
http://i.imgur.com/by7vDy3.png

and heres how i have been tackling this issue... trying to "fix it"
http://i.imgur.com/msVVWq8.png
http://i.imgur.com/w6iCxax.png

Also here is the guide(s) I am following which may give you a better example of what this project entailed.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?600630-How-to-split-a-region
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?663513-How-to-add-a-new-land-mass


Will be willing to discuss more detail as we continue, please post here over PM as the questions you have may be useful for explaining this further.
Thanks for your help!

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  • Havie
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    Havie polycounter lvl 6
    Now we apparently  have 100 of these to fix:
    http://i.imgur.com/l55TH67.png
    http://i.imgur.com/4QC2txv.png

    and i have no idea what some of these errors mean
    I was able to go through with STL check and clean some stuff up.

    Im using xview now and it helps show some errors, others are just highlighted areas that look fine to me. and its a huge project size so its slow.
  • Havie
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    Havie polycounter lvl 6
    Made it through the bulk of those and it let me get to the next errors, (wish we had a spoiler option? cuz here comes a wall of text ) an example reads like this:

    Starting object 105 (sea_jap_eastern_tohoku_sea)

    ERROR: found region sea_jap_eastern_tohoku_sea with 4 edges, must have at least 6. First edge is:

    AT VERT: x=-46.820992, y=-77.129219

    AT VERT: x=-45.359596, y=-77.567429

    Extracted outlines of group 0

    Starting object 106 (sea_cliff_jap_suruga_bay)

    Extracted outlines of group 0

    Starting object 107 (sea_jap_tanegashima_straits)

    Extracted outlines of group 0

    Extracted outlines of group 1

    Starting object 108 (sea_jap_toyama_bay)

    Extracted outlines of group 0

    Starting object 109 (sea_cliff_jap_shikoku_south_coast)

    Extracted outlines of group 0

    Starting object 110 (sea_jap_korea_strait)

    Extracted outlines of group 0

    Found 1 overlapping

    Starting object 111 (sea_ford_jap_kanmon_strait)

    Extracted outlines of group 0

    Starting object 112 (land_jap_south_shinano)

    Extracted outlines of group 0

    Found 2 overlapping

    Starting object 113 (sea_ford_jap_naruto_strait)

    Extracted outlines of group 0

    Starting object 114 (sea_cliff_jap_kagoshima_bay)

    Extracted outlines of group 0

    Starting object 115 (land_jap_izumo)

    Extracted outlines of group 0

    Found 3 overlapping

    WARNING: found vert touching edge in clipping code at (-154.092636, -86.235847), edge is (-153.589996, -87.489708) to (-154.909698, -84.232834)

    WARNING: errors were found trying to clip inaccessible areas (ie mountains and groundtypes combined) against regions.

    Watch out for verts that are too close to each other, or region verts that touch inaccessible area edges, or inaccessible area verts that touch region edges.

    ERROR in region - found mountains which share verts with region

    Starting object 116 (land_jap_kazusa)

    Extracted outlines of group 0

    Found 3 overlapping

    WARNING: found vert touching edge in clipping code at (-284.984894, -208.271484), edge is (-285.485535, -207.089447) to (-283.649902, -211.416229)

    WARNING: errors were found trying to clip inaccessible areas (ie mountains and groundtypes combined) against regions.

    Watch out for verts that are too close to each other, or region verts that touch inaccessible area edges, or inaccessible area verts that touch region edges.

    ERROR in region - found mountains which share verts with region

    Starting object 117 (land_jap_yamato)

    Extracted outlines of group 0

    Found 1 overlapping

    Failed to read and convert fileFailed.







    So now we need to find regions that dont have enough verts, and compare the mountain layer, ground type, and regions layer to make sure verts arent too close to one another ... right on!... really lookin for someone to take the reigns here.

  • Ruz
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    Ruz polycount lvl 666
    is this paid? if not it should not be here
  • Havie
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    Havie polycounter lvl 6
  • Kyetja
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    Kyetja polycounter lvl 7
    Are you still stuck with this?
  • Havie
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    Havie polycounter lvl 6
    Nah,
    Thanks for your reply, i just trucked through it myself :smile:
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