Expoting a Tree in MAX...some braches arnt there?
by Bobby Leighton · in Artist Corner · 07/21/2006 (2:55 pm) · 8 replies
As per the title this is my problem...ive gotta great tree model done in max and when I export and ive tried both exporters, I get the tree just fine but only one set of leaves..they look fine ,..Transp works fine but only one set the are 20 sets of, well 19 that dont get diplayed i think it is somthing to do with the way the heiarchy is set up but there are no instructions that i can find that explain the mutiple object thing..If needed i will send somone the tree in question and you may try to export it and find the problem....anyone that can solve the problem and show me what im doing wrong will have a awsome tree/forest pack a whole month before I release it...
#2
07/21/2006 (10:06 pm)
No I selected Copy..I was carefull of that.I opened the Heiarchy editor and saw that they all..even the origanal as the same but I will try to do it over incase...any other hints?..Anyone 
#3
07/21/2006 (10:20 pm)
Just make sure all the objects are linked into the heirarchy (doesn't particulary matter what's linked to what), and make sure all the object names have the correct trailing detail number.
#4
07/22/2006 (10:33 am)
I think that may be the problem...Ill look up the section on details...arnt they for culling out object at distance...hmmm ill have to look..ty
#5
and I cant seen to change that because when I export the tree and leaves1 are the only thing that showed up....on one export at adiffert position i saw set 1 dispear and set 2 apear so I believe Im on the right track but I really need the answer as detailed as possible or someone willing to donload the model and change ti to export so I can see what i did wrog...Please help
07/22/2006 (3:45 pm)
No matter what I do I cant get this to export correctly...I know its not the exporter and definatly somthing im not doing im sure but as to what that is....aaaaah!!ok can someone explain exacaly what is supposed to be linked to what?I have "Tree1" as the tree mesh the leaves are called "Leaves1" through "Leaves16" "Bounds" is off to the side unlinked there is also "base01" and "start01" and now if I do the auto details it creats "detail1 - details16" to match the leaves...but in detail one when it is selected it will read the tree leaves one and nothing else all the other are associated with there individual detail markers......and I cant seen to change that because when I export the tree and leaves1 are the only thing that showed up....on one export at adiffert position i saw set 1 dispear and set 2 apear so I believe Im on the right track but I really need the answer as detailed as possible or someone willing to donload the model and change ti to export so I can see what i did wrog...Please help
#6
07/22/2006 (6:06 pm)
Is there anyone out there? 
#7
Ex: Leavea2, Leaveb2, etc...
For testing purpose you can also uncheck collapse transform (but it's less important on static objects).
If this doesn't work, an additional solution is simply to attach all your set into one mesh.
07/22/2006 (6:24 pm)
Problem could be in the details. Try removing them except detail2 and change the name of your leaves so they end with a "2". Ex: Leavea2, Leaveb2, etc...
For testing purpose you can also uncheck collapse transform (but it's less important on static objects).
If this doesn't work, an additional solution is simply to attach all your set into one mesh.
#8
07/22/2006 (7:08 pm)
Thank you sooo much...that did it...add the numbers at the end...cant believe I didnt think of it...now I can get back to work..
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