Diamond shapes after meshsmooth or export (3ds)

Carl Brannstrom · Mar 2007

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 · Mar 2007

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 · Mar 2007

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 · Mar 2007

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

Sage · Mar 2007

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 · Mar 2007

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 · Mar 2007

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

Carl Brannstrom · Mar 2007

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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 · Mar 2007

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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

Diamond shapes after meshsmooth or export (3ds)

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