Try doing an extract of all polys to a new model THEN try weld boundry edge on the new one - might find the points are all over the place so the weld has no clue where to start.
S. Sandy Sutherland<mailto:sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za> | Technical Supervisor [http://triggerfish.co.za/en/wp-content/uploads/udf_foundry/images/logo.png] <http://triggerfish.co.za/en> [http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v2/ym/x/lFV-lsMcC_0.png] <http://www.facebook.com/triggerfishanimation> [https://si0.twimg.com/a/1349296073/images/resources/twitter-bird-white-on-blue.png] <http://www.twitter.com/triggerfishza> ________________________________ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of adrian wyer [adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com] Sent: 22 November 2012 17:50 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: unmergable polys well almost.... bought a model off TurboSquid (yeah i know, should have known better etc etc) getting some very strange behaviour! there are lots of triangles (thanks 3DSMax!) but many of them are showing as open edges normally running a weld boundary edges with a suitable falloff fixes all but the most stubborn problems like this, but with this model it has NO EFFECT! i am having to go round and use the move/weld tool manually on every face! and on some of them it takes 3 or 4 goes to get them to merge i had a good look at the geometry, pulling apart faces/vertices, export as vanilla OBJ and re-import etc... there are no double faces, *most* of the normals are facing the same way.... weird... never seen anything like it surely once it's been through the wringer of softimage--->OBJ--->softimage any user data etc is gone, we're down to base polys? anyway, just needed to vent, back to my manual welding job.... a Adrian Wyer Fluid Pictures 75-77 Margaret St. London W1W 8SY ++44(0) 207 580 0829 adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com<UrlBlockedError.aspx> www.fluid-pictures.com<UrlBlockedError.aspx> Fluid Pictures Limited is registered in England and Wales. Company number:5657815 VAT number: 872 6893 71
