Is there a way to strip a model of its (background) data?

Zepic

Sort of like when you run a photo through photoshop. It can strip the image of all its background data (gps location, date taken etc).
Can you do something like this in 3DS max?

ivanzu

No,get a student version.

passerby

i would have to ask, why than after that would tell you that you know formate like OBJ, and maya's MA are human readable editable in a simple text editor like sublime 2 or even notepad.

Zepic

To shed some more light on my problem.

I'm having a problem with some of my models not exporting correctly to the Crydev engine. Some of my models are displaying the textures correctly while some are not.... I figure there's some kind of ghost data floating around.

passerby

well iirc cry engine has it;s own formate for images and models?

also what pacakge and what liscense are you useing

Zepic

I could have sworn there was an option under the Utilities menu that did this... maybe I'm mistaken.

Zepic

passerby wrote: »

well iirc cry engine has it;s own formate for images and models?

also what pacakge and what liscense are you useing

I'm using the non-commercial license. The latest build 3.4.3. I'm also using the older exporter due to the latest one being buggy.

passerby

of what 3d package?

well either way of it is just a mesh, no bones and stuff
export obj, create a new scene and import that back in, should kill everythign but basic mesh data.

throttlekitty

And what do you mean by not displaying correctly? Like, wrong texture shown on a model, or right texture displayed garbled or distorted?

Zepic

passerby wrote: »

of what 3d package?

well either way of it is just a mesh, no bones and stuff
export obj, create a new scene and import that back in, should kill everythign but basic mesh data.

3DS Max 2009.

Zepic

throttlekitty wrote: »

And what do you mean by not displaying correctly? Like, wrong texture shown on a model, or right texture displayed garbled or distorted?

I get the big red Replace Me texture on some models and not others.

Here's an example of what's working and what's not.

Object_Node_1 = Is showing the correct material in the Crydev editor.
Object_Node_2 = Is NOT showing the correct material in the Crydev editor.

Now, when I grab the geo from Object_Node_2 and place it under the parent of Object_Node 1, the geo displays the material perfectly. When I parent the geo back under Object_Node_2, I get that red Replace Me texture.

I'm thinking it's something to do with the nodes...

Zepic

Okay, figured it out.

In case anybody finds this thread and is looking for help:

I had to delete the nodes that were displaying the improper material. Create a new node in its place and reparent the existing geo. Looks like some of my nodes got corrupted. No idea how or why.