MODO (PipelineIO) to SD/SP baking problem

Tzur_H

HI, I'm having some issues with baking in SD/SP.

I'm using a set of scripts called PipelineIO for MODO to export my low, cage and high. The cage is a Morph Map in MODO, PipelineIO is then exporting it as an OBJ. For some reasons painter crashes every time I tell it to use the cage, and designer is giving me completely black maps when using the cage.
They both bake fine as soon as I unplug the cage file, so I assume something is faulty with it.. but I can't find anything.

Here are the meshes I'm using, it's just a simple cube to test the bakes. Can someone please take a look at them? Mainly the cage, which I think is the cause for this?
Cage
HighPoly
LowPoly

Appreciate the help!

Bek

At a guess, your cage might need UV's which pipelineIO might not be exporting.

Son Kim

Yea, it will crash if the cage has no UV.

Tzur_H

Thanks guys, it's indeed the missing UVs.

I wonder if there's a way to tell PipelineIO to export the UVs along when running the 'P' command?

Bek

You could probably use the m2 tag and name your cage morph map appropriately (instead of using P)

Tzur_H

Thanks Bek, got it to work as 1 button export :thumbup:

csprance

Hey, a little late to reply but I found this post while searching for the same issue you had.
Mind sharing what your end command for the button was so if anyone else  has this issue they can solve it also?

I managed to fix it by exporting a separate cage file but not in one button.

Bek

The pipelineIO.pdf documentation explains how to use the m2 tag. Direct copypaste from the pdf:

PipelineIO.pdf:

example: pipelineIO E FBX M2 “smile” 

where "smile" is the name of the custom morph map.