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[HelLRaiseR]

since a few days I have a problem with 3ds files. I've made a lot of hidden geometries, with 3D Max and Cinema 4D, and these geometries has been work OK. Since a few days, the geometries that I made, aren't recognise by WME. When I choose a 3ds file in scene editor, and check the "Display geometry" option, the scene edit only show the walk zones, and don't show the shadow zones. When I run the game, only the floor is recognized, but the polycount value contains all the polygons that corresponded to the geometry

I've reinstalled 3D Max, Cinema 4D and Wintermute, I've been checked the geometry.geometry file and this is OK, I've reset the geometry, I've reduced the polygon number, etc.

But the problem persist. Someone has had this problem?

   
I don't know what to do, because I can't create any geometry.

[Mnemonic]

Please post some of the problematic files.

[HelLRaiseR]

The old geometry file, (works ok) is this: http://www.adventureboxstudios.com/old_geometry.3ds

The new geometry file, (doesn't work) is this: http://www.adventureboxstudios.com/new_geometry.3DS

[Mnemonic]

Well you actually need the additional .geometry definition file, which tells what nodes should receive shadows.
Create a file called "new_geometry.geometry" in the same directory, containing:

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GEOMETRY
{
  NODE
  {
    NAME = "shadow_*"
    RECEIVE_SHADOWS = TRUE
  }
}

And it will work.

[HelLRaiseR]

Lately I'm a bit silly. I have always used a file called geometry.3ds, until I started to optimize the geometry and I've used files with different names. The mistake is that I have assumed that all the geometries used the same file geometry.geometry. I wasn't supposed to be necessary a .geometry file for each .3ds file

Once again, thanks Mnemonic. I apologize the inconvenience of this kind of stupid mistakes (and for not read, I've seen it clearly that it's explain in the documentantion)

[Mnemonic]

If it makes you feel better, I didn't remember the shadow_* name wasn't implicit either. I only remembered when I looked into code

[HelLRaiseR]

Yes, it makes me feel better