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1. [3ds Max] Seperate all elements to objects while keeping normals?

   

   Topic by Davision3D · Nov 2017 · Home› Technical Talk

   I found several Max scripts that seperate all elements to objects but none of those keep the mesh normals. The only workflow that keeps the normals seems to be this: -Clone the whole object -Edit mesh, delete everything but one of the elements -Repeat This is for Destructible chunks that I need to import in UE4 seperated…

2. Re: [3ds Max] Seperate all elements to objects while keeping normals?

   

   Reply by Justo · Nov 2017 · Home› Technical Talk

   Have you tried Soulburn's free ObjectDetacher script? I don't know if that keeps the mesh normals, but if I recall correctly, it does. 

3. Re: [3ds Max] Seperate all elements to objects while keeping normals?

   

   Reply by Davision3D · Nov 2017 · Home› Technical Talk

   Thanks a lot, that works great! Yea, that wiki page was really helpful but making normals Explicit does not help in this case. Same problem with that script.

4. Re: [3ds Max] Seperate all elements to objects while keeping normals?

   

   Reply by Larry · Dec 2017 · Home› Technical Talk

   Have you tried face weighted normals script after you split them? In the end it's a pile of broken junk, does it look that bad in the engine with materlsa on them? I mean, nobody is going to notice