SOLVED: DDO Material not working properly

wysiwyg

Hi,
When importing my textures/mesh into DDO - version 1.8, my mesh appears with the gray metallic material:


My textures are named like this:
Pistol.obj (triangulated and unwrapped in max)

Pistol_AO.tga
Pistol_Id.tga
Pistol_Normal.tga

Im using Photoshop from Creative Cloud 2015.

Also, when applying Oily Painted Metal material:


I also donwloaded your demo project. Once open, here is what I see:


So I guess your demo scene works.

Thanks for your help,

* As a side note, I just tried with CS6 and it does the same thing.

Synaesthesia

Hey wysiwyg! Is your model one mesh group or is it multiple? The reason I ask is that multiple mesh groups in 1.8 will only display on one part of the model, so you'll need to export the model again as a single group and reimport inside of 3DO. That should fix it. If not, do you mind uploading it so I can take a look at it for you?

wysiwyg

Hi, my mesh is one single object. here is my .obj and textures in attachment.https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/33632100/Pistol_File.zip

Synaesthesia

Thanks for that, wysiwyg!

I've inspected your input maps and have found alpha channels in all of them. That usually causes errors in DDO, so I removed the alpha channels and encountered the same error in 3DO that you showed. I also converted your ID map to a *.PNG, which is the format that DDO prefers. That may or may not have contributed to the problem, so I decided to look into your OBJ itself. I imported it, changed the mesh name "Pistol" to "pistol" (in case case-sensitivity was the problem, you never know! ) and re-exported it - I still see a glossy material on your model, so I'll pass this on and see if we can dig into it more for you.

wysiwyg

Thanks for your input. I have to say, Im kind of stuck right now. Every complex model I bring in does this error.

Although, I did a very simple cube with a normal map and it seems to work. But when I try to import a complex mesh, it does the silver thing.

Synaesthesia

From Billy:

Try importing your model into Maya and re-export the file. Create a new project and see if that works.

psyche

Hi wysiwyg!!

After a lot of testing in modifying smoothing groups and test testing a bunch of export setting, I finally figured it out!!

You have a problem with your xform on your object. To make it work just do as follow:


In 3Dsmax (or other software) detach the elements (make theim a separate object) in red then perform a "reset Xform" on it.
Next select all the rest (the gun's body) and apply a "reset Xform" too.
Finally re-attach all the objects and export it.

You can see here the result Before/After:




By the way good job for the modeling part!

wysiwyg

Hey thanks psyche for checking this out. I'll go test the reset x form right away. I'll post an update later.

Thanks again,

psyche

@ Wysiwyg

In case you can't make it work, tell me and I could send you the file directly.

wysiwyg

Hi, its working now. Thanks!

psyche

Perfect!
Glad to hear that! You can mark the subject as [Solved].

Wiktor

Great! X Form solves just about everything.

Synaesthesia

What's fascinating is that I actually did a reset transform on the entire model, and that still gave the same result - I didn't think of separating into elements, resetting, and then recombining!