help with geometry appearing broken in UDK

David-J · Mar 2011

SO I am doing this small level and a perfectly normal mesh appears broken in UDK. I am using the unreal actor X static mesh exporter.

In Maya displaying soft and hard edges.

In UDK with some faces missing.

Any thoughts on why is this happening?

Ben Apuna · Mar 2011

Hmm... I haven't used Maya + ActorX in a long time, but IIRC I had an issue similar to this when I forgot to triangulate a mesh before export.

You might want to try saving your meshes as FBX as well.

If that doesn't work then make sure all of your face normals are pointing outwards in Maya.

tristamus · Mar 2011

What is the scale of your model in Maya? If it's too small on the grid, this will happen. Just try scaling your entire model up in maya, feeze transformations, center the pivot on the origin or whatever, and try again.

haiddasalami · Mar 2011

As ben suggested try checking the face normals. Also check to see if all verts are welded.

David-J · Mar 2011

Tristamus wins!!! It was the scale. Took me a while to figure it out.

Thanks everyone!

cheers!

tristamus · Mar 2011

haha cool, happy it helped.

help with geometry appearing broken in UDK

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