and further investigation it seems it was a curve that was created with 'fit curve' not being frozen and its input curve being outside the model is the main culprit here. apologies to ICE modelling, always blame the new guy first :)
On 19 July 2012 16:15, Rob Chapman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alan, > > thanks for your reply, just trying alternatives out but it seems that > somehow my scene is now corrupted and won't load again when all I did was > put the ice tree under a model and exported... > > > > On 19 July 2012 15:49, Alan Fregtman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You sure everything involved in that ICEtree was in that exported model? >> >> Also, if you had explicit model references (modelname.someobject) to >> its own model, you should change those to use "this_model" in place of >> the explicit model name so it's more portable. >> >> Does it still error after considering both these things? >> >> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Rob Chapman <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > So, in 2012 SP1, I exported a model containing only an ICE Modelling >> > geometry (with the ice tree live) a curve and two nulls >> > >> > when I try and import said model I get >> > >> > ' INFO : 4152 - Data loaded from file \\aka03\in_progress\**path >> > snipped**\ICE_SLIDE_Model.emdl was created with build number: 10.1.62.0 >> - >> > compatibility version: 1000 >> > ' ERROR : 2006-FILE-SIImportModel - Unexpected failure. - [line 111 in >> > C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2012 >> > SP1\Application\DSScripts\Model.vbs] >> > ImportModel >> > >> > >> > this is something I should not be doing or is a bug thats been fixed? >> > >> > Thanks >> > >> > Rob >> > >> > >> > >> > >

