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[Pi Mu Rho]

This is a weird one.

I've got two "doors" on a model that rotate open. They're all set up in Max - the vertices correctly assigned, animated cleanly. Yet after compiling, they do this:

The coloured parts highlight the issue - it appears that some vertices think that they are assigned to the opposite door. I've checked and re-checked, verified countless times, redone the animations, reassigned the vertices and it still does it. I'm mystified by this one.
I considered manually editing the .smd to find any shared vertices, but with it being 3.5mb, it's probably going to take a few years.

Any thoughts?

 

[rollin]

can you post a pic from the 3d-app how it SHOULD look like?

 

[Pi Mu Rho]

Just imagine it without the coloured parts - there's two "doors" there and they shouldn't be connected by any polygons at all.

I've kind of "fixed" it now - for some reason, the exporter or compiler is welding some of the vertices. I put a very small gap between the "doors" and now they work like they should do. It's very annoying, though.

 

[mindless_moder]

when you say the vertices are correctly assigned you mean that you have a bone for each door and that you have skinned the door to the bone right ?

 

[Pi Mu Rho]

Yes. Each door has it's own set of correctly-assigned vertices. There's no crossovers, no overlaps, all bone weighting is done at 1.0, rigid.

It's all become fairly moot anyway, as (as far as I can tell) there's no way to have animated collision meshes.

 

[mindless_moder]

ok i have a few quick but stupid questions

1)- are you using "skin" or "physique"
2)- did u click "skeletal animation" when you exported the smd

 

[Pi Mu Rho]

1) Skin.

2) Yes.

I'm assuming that there's some oddness with either the exporter or the compiler where vertices sharing the same co-ordinates will sometimes end up being welded.

 

[Pesmerga]

Looks like you copied the doors, causing an error in vertex information. Recreate the problem door?

 

[Pi Mu Rho]

Looks like you're completely wrong by jumping to an incorrect assumption. The door was originally one piece, which I remodelled as two. Twice.

I mean, seriously, I've been mapping/modelling for years, professionally as well as casually. I have to be really stuck before I'll ask for assistance, and that means that I'll have already tried everything I can think of, including redoing from scratch if necessary.