Hi Ben and thanks for your generous offer. ;) The problem seems to be that the point #0 in Softimage is point #1 in MAX. Apparently in MAX, they don’t require a point #0, they just start at #1! So all the points get offsetted by one. It doesn’t seem to be a problem on a regular sphere…the cache applies fine?!!
I’ll put the solution up once we find out. Thanks MAC From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Houston Sent: 1 novembre 2012 09:34 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Urgent : Point reordering problem on PC2 caches My obvious contribution: Can you transfer it via Alembic? I can give you guys a full featured trial license to see if it can help. Crate / Alembic does support transfer of normals, clusters/material groups and multiple UV sets these days. BTW these 3D programs can sometimes reorder vertices if have bad topology in an attempt to fix the geometry. BUt that isn't just reordering that usually involves adding vertices. I've never actually see vertex reordering outside of bad topology in our Crate solution, thus it confuses me on why you are running into this. -ben On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Marc-Andre Carbonneau <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Nope. It keeps the same index. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Sandy Sutherland Sent: 1 novembre 2012 09:04 To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: Urgent : Point reordering problem on PC2 caches Try selecting all polys and doing a poly extract - leave the history live - then cache the extracted one! Used to do this to get ncloth stuff to work with soft. S. Sandy Sutherland<mailto:[email protected]> | Technical Supervisor <http://triggerfish.co.za/en> <http://triggerfish.co.za/en> <http://triggerfish.co.za/en> <http://triggerfish.co.za/en> ________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Marc-Andre Carbonneau [[email protected]] Sent: 01 November 2012 14:57 To: [email protected] Subject: Urgent : Point reordering problem on PC2 caches<http://triggerfish.co.za/en> Hello,<http://triggerfish.co.za/en> I’m caching a character in Softimage with PC2 and bringing it to MAX.<http://triggerfish.co.za/en> The problem is that the point ordering is different! I’m sure I am not the only one that encountered this problem. What do you guys do?<http://triggerfish.co.za/en> Is there a ICE Compound already that re-orders the points prior to caching or what’s the secret technique?<http://triggerfish.co.za/en> Thanks<http://triggerfish.co.za/en> <http://triggerfish.co.za/en> MAC<http://triggerfish.co.za/en> <http://triggerfish.co.za/en> <http://triggerfish.co.za/en> -- Best regards, Ben Houston Voice: 613-762-4113 Skype: ben.exocortex Twitter: @exocortexcom http://Exocortex.com - Passionate CG Software Professionals.<http://triggerfish.co.za/en>
