You can also try emtopolizer which can read an write multiple fileformats -- christian keller visual effects|direction
m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 [email protected] gesendet von meinem iDing Am 01.11.2012 um 19:17 schrieb Marc-Andre Carbonneau <[email protected]>: > 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]> wrote: > Nope. It keeps the same index. > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sandy Sutherland > Sent: 1 novembre 2012 09:04 > To: [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 | Technical Supervisor > > 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 > > Hello, > I’m caching a character in Softimage with PC2 and bringing it to MAX. > 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? > Is there a ICE Compound already that re-orders the points prior to caching or > what’s the secret technique? > Thanks > > MAC > > > > -- > Best regards, > Ben Houston > Voice: 613-762-4113 Skype: ben.exocortex Twitter: @exocortexcom > http://Exocortex.com - Passionate CG Software Professionals.
