Hey guys I was curious about a few editing features when it came to DX, mainly about importing meshes. (With animations)
I use 3DS Max 11 and 3ds2de when exporting. I almost always have a problem with my meshes being "Mirrored" when exported.
Is this normal with Max users? If I mirror my models using the Mirror Modifier it sometimes works. Other times I'm hit with a nasty Jellyfish effect.
That's another question I also wanted to ask, What causes the Jellyfish glitches? I know that DX hates overlapping polys. It also hates a poly that moves through a poly. I think it also hates polys being stretched and pulled. Does a high poly count effect this? Most of my models are in the 800-900 poly range (Highest in the 1100-2000 range).
I've been having the same problem but i don't use 3dsmax. i'm using milkshape and hexy's mesh tool.The models are ok (no jelly) but the animations are not perfect. They look nice thoug.
i wander what is causing that but i know it's not the number of polygons. I imported a model whit more than 5000 polys and it's perfect.(whitout animations)
the same will hapen to a low poly model.
I myself have done a few fun tests on what Unreal 1.5 could take, I think the highest I was able to go was about 200,000 polys before it would no longer generate a .uc...
I have no idea why we get these anomalies though, It's so bloody annoying. I'm sure TNM team went through hell and back with what they had to go through. I did read somewhere that with 3ds2unr you can add '-ms' to your compile window to mirror the model.
Note that the alien is a fully animated npc mesh and the flaws are almost imposible to be noticed.
For the weapon, i'm sill working on it
The jelly problem i had before was because i was using other mesh converters (MS2DE,UNR2DE)
I higly recomend the Hexy's u2de mesh converter, this wont ruin your models.
You can find the links in this page. I don't remember where but is in DX editing section
This will convert your U/UT3d meshes in DX3d.
If are intersted or have any doubt on how to use it, i will try to help you.
Hey DDL, Thanks for the feedback. I was starting to think I was going to have to model every weapon 'left' handed.
I may have figured out my previous problem and I guess it's simply the poly count. Lowering the polys per (Animated) model to around 300-500 really stopped the anomalies.
