Diamond shapes after meshsmooth or export (3ds)

Carl Brannstrom

Hi

I'm working on a model.. When I add the meshsmooth modifier, it looks like the way i want it: all nice squares. But when I render it or export it to zbrush, it get these diamond shapes instead of squares which make it look really crazy. Is there any way of fixing this?

Asthane

Most likely the exporter is triangulating the model, .3ds is a pretty bad format for going between programs in general since alot of them impliment it differently or whatnot.

.obj has always worked pretty well for me.

Vailias

yeah .3ds doesn't support quads as I remember.. at least none of the exporters I've ever used have supported quads in a 3ds.

OBJ or FBX are definitely the way to go.

Carl Brannstrom

I tried to export it to .obj but it turned out like this:

Sage

remember to reset the xform before exporting and it might need to be an editable poly to not screw up, if you have a meshsmooth in the stack at the time of export.

Alex

Rick Stirling

Thats your compression.

Export to obj, and near the bottom there is a tickbox for compression, and a numerical value.

Switch it off.

And make sure you export as Quads, and not triangles.

Michael Knubben

Corv:
1.slap a meshsmooth on that
2.overlay a gradient
3.upload to deviantart
4.?
5.profit!

Carl Brannstrom

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Thats your compression.

Export to obj, and near the bottom there is a tickbox for compression, and a numerical value.

Switch it off.

And make sure you export as Quads, and not triangles.


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Aahh it worked!

Thanks alot!

mikebart

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I tried to export it to .obj but it turned out like this:




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If you put the vertex scale to about 6 Ive found it fixes this with .obj