Xnormal - cage problem

knj

Hi,
i have a problem, i have a model of vase, i need to use external cage to get nice normal, so what i do:
copy my LP mesh
tweek some verts to get it right, and save cage as .obj
(i only move some verts, i don't do nothing more)

in Xnormal, i assign HP mesh, LP mesh and use cage, after hiting bake
i have window pop up that some of the verts on cage and lp model has different index, what is impossible, becouse cage is just LP a lil modified,

what is really funny i did that before and it worked just fine

some tips guys ?

Ace-Angel

Most likely you got unlucky and the exporter changed the ID set.

What options are you selecting during the exportation?

m4dcow

If you only moved the verts along their normals you could just use the cage obj in the low poly slot and bake from that since it maps to the same uv position.

Neavah

I had this problem as well. In my version of max(2009) in the export options for obj I unchecked all the optimize options. Worked after that....

perhaps that will help

knj

Thx guys, for reps, i've downgrade to 3,17,4 and for now it is ok, BTW i was using default options exporting .obj