[aldo_14]

Ok, so I've made a very nice model, and I load it in TS5.0... chick the normals, all fine   .  There's a few wee missing bits, but triangulating will fix those.

So I triangulate.......

Now look at the wonder of Ts boys and girls.

   

Fine here before i triangulate - although some nearby faces are a tiny bit dodgy.

   

And BOOM!!! TS promptly draws a line across the face.... and decides to leave this hole here.  chamring, eh?  so now the best model i have ever made, the one that's taken 20 hours up to this point is wrecked.  And I can't seem to select the face to try and flip the normals.  (In fact, I know know I can't even create a face by selecting the nearby vertices   )

Brilliant, eh?

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[Nico]

send me the model in 3ds format, if you want. I can have a look in Max to see what's wrong. (or send me the untriangulated version, so I can do it in max)

[aldo_14]

     

Originally posted by venom2506:
send me the model in 3ds format, if you want. I can have a look in Max to see what's wrong. (or send me the untriangulated version, so I can do it in max)

Ok... I've now found it happens somewhere else too      

Hey, Venom, what's your e-mail?

I have the untextured (UV mapped) models saved in 3ds.

[EDIT]

Well, now this is odd.... the mistake does not occur when triangulating with TS1... but with TS5.  nice, eh?

Oh, and look... Lithunwrap, which is free - can triangulate it too!!! Whoop de-*****-do Caligari -  you're the best ever (sarcasm)

(what a pile of ****   )

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[Stryke 9]

I could have told you about that. The only advice I can give is a link to the free demo for TS4/3/2.

[aldo_14]

 

Originally posted by Stryke 9:
I could have told you about that. The only advice I can give is a link to the free demo for TS4/3/2.

Do they trinagulate things properly - or jst cut them into holes?

Sigh.

[Nico]

my email is [email protected] , but now the model is working thanx to ts1, no?

[aldo_14]

 

Originally posted by venom2506:
my email is [email protected] , but now the model is working thanx to ts1, no?

sort of.... I normally use the untriangulated hull as LOD2, and then triangulate and turret it.... but it looks like I can't do that now  .

Maybe I'll forego LODs for this one or something....I have siome ides how to fix it, so I think I can bluff my way through.

Still, I hate Truespace.  

Thanks for offering anyway, venom.

[Stryke 9]

Truespace sucks. I don't know- I just got 4 today and havren't used it yet.

[QXMX]

The first screwed up texture is just a bad UV map.  Try mapping the face individually with a planar map and fix it like that.

As for the face, just select the segment and delete the vertices, that should get rid of it.

Hope this helps.

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[aldo_14]

 

Originally posted by QXMX:
The first screwed up texture is just a bad UV map.  Try mapping the face individually with a planar map and fix it like that.

As for the face, just select the segment and delete the vertices, that should get rid of it.

Hope this helps.

Well, I can't select the corrupted face atall (either inside or outside the model), so I've just triangulated it in TS1 and restarted the mapping.

[QXMX]

Damn, not at all.  Hmmmm, that's really strange.  When you moved your mouse over the face, what did it do?

Ifn' you've already started remapping, good luck, I know how TS 1 can be    The model you were doing looks pretty cool.

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[aldo_14]

 

Originally posted by QXMX:
Damn, not at all.  Hmmmm, that's really strange.  When you moved your mouse over the face, what did it do?

Ifn' you've already started remapping, good luck, I know how TS 1 can be    The model you were doing looks pretty cool.

I'm using ts5 for the mapping - i just triangulated with ts1.  the holes appear fixed now, at least, and I have a superb job done fopr the model  

I did try to triangualte face myself, by drawing an edge where the triangulation was creating, it but it never worked.

Not that it really matters - the new tex job is far, far better than the previous one