UDK not accepting Maya 2010 normals?

j4polaris

Heya all,
Apologies if this is a copy of an earlier post. I did a quick search on the forums and couldn't find an answer.

I'm having issues with the .psk skeletal meshes that I export from Maya 2010 showing up extremely faceted in UDK. I've tried several solutions, including creating a second UV set, as well as triangulating the mesh before exporting, but unfortunately it does not appear to work.

Has anyone else encountered the same issue, and if so, any tips as to how to fix it?

Thanks in advance! :poly121:

sprunghunt

I'm not sure about the maya version of this but the actorX plugin doesn't really export normals. Usually the normals will be rebuilt whenever you import into UDK. This is what happens when I export PSK files in max.
In max you can turn off "bake smoothing groups" and that will fix this. If you can do this try exporting with it turned off.

when you export your mesh a dialog should come up saying:
"unsmooth groups processing [x] verticies added"

how many verticies does it have where I put the 'X'?

You could also try using FBX?
http://mayastation.typepad.com/maya-station/2009/05/fbx-2010-plugin.html

Neox

wghy do you use psk still anyways? udk is now on fbx for skeletal and static meshes

j4polaris

Thanks guys. I'll give these a shot.

..As for PSK's, I've been using them since the UT3 days, didn't know that Epic officially moved on to FBX's. Good information to know.