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LOD woes... exporter issue?

by Russell Fincher · in Artist Corner · 08/22/2008 (9:51 am) · 3 replies

Are there any known issues with the Max 9/2008 exporter screwing up LODs? I can export the same file from Max 5 and the LODs cycle through correctly... but exporting from Max 2008, I'm always shown the lowest LOD (unless I force LODs to be shown using the slider in ShowTool). I've set up a very simple test object and it always shows itself in the lowest LOD in ShowTool and in-game, regardless of the size on-screen. If anyone would like to see if it works for them, download here.

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Sickhead Games

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    Associate Russell Fincher
    Sickhead Games
    #1
    08/22/2008 (11:19 am)
    Bah, our old colleague Magnus coaxed me into running UnMessDTS and it fixed my issues. I was under the impression that UnMessDTS fixed problems associated with MultiRes, and since I built these LODs by hand it was irrelevent. But I was wrong.

    Associate Logan Foster
    perPixel Studios
    #2
    08/22/2008 (1:05 pm)
    UnmessDTS fixes a whole bunch of things really. Basicly the jist of it is that the DTS code that is in Torque wasn't the 100% final version of the same code used in Tribes 2 (though oddly the exporters and exporter code is...), so unmessDTS is needed to do some conversions to the Torque DTS format.

    Logan

    Associate Russell Fincher
    Sickhead Games
    #3
    08/22/2008 (1:26 pm)
    Wow, good to know. Thanks, Logan.