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Barry Burton

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Issues with Pandasoft Xporter
« on: June 02, 2013, 05:00:44 AM »

Every time I export my mesh using the PandaSoft Exporter for 3DS Max, it completely goes haywire and explodes my mesh. When I un-tick bones, the model loads fine without bones. I'm not sure what I did wrong here, as I've never had this issue before. I export the file as an .FBX and it loads fine in other 3D applications. So I don't know what's going on here..

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Edit: Converting to an editable poly got rid of the explosions. But the mesh is still deformed.



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This is how it looks in WME as well.

Honestly it would be so much better for WME to just support the FBX format..
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Re: Issues with Pandasoft Xporter
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2013, 06:05:03 AM »

Nevermind guys. I fixed the problem. The problem was I scaled the entire mesh and animations, and/or didn't convert to an editable poly with the skin modifier on top.

But now I've yet another issue. When I try to scale my actor in the Act3D file, it changes in the preview pane but in game he remains incredibly tiny.

On Windows 7 BTW.
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Re: Issues with Pandasoft Xporter
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2013, 01:36:53 PM »

Perhaps your scene geometry uses a different scale that your character, so it appears too small? Make sure you're using the same units when modelling the scene and the character.
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Re: Issues with Pandasoft Xporter
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2013, 03:17:54 PM »

I'm having the same problem.  I thought it might have something to do with using the demo game scene files.  I haven't used one from scratch, I just replaced the teapot model with my character.  When I try to scale it, it remains the same size, even though it does change size in the ac3d preview window.  Could it be getting re-scaled somewhere else in the demo besides the ac3d file?  Just testing it.  The scaling number is meaningless on the Trinity character, also.  I doubled it in the ac3d and she's the same size in the game.  It scales from my export so I guess it doesn't matter. 
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Re: Issues with Pandasoft Xporter
« Reply #4 on: June 03, 2013, 07:11:27 AM »

I managed to fix it. I think it's a Windows 7 issues, since I never had a problem on XP. Just let every possible exe associated with WME to run as an administrator and with Windows XP compatibility. It solved it for me.
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Re: Issues with Pandasoft Xporter
« Reply #5 on: June 03, 2013, 07:51:31 AM »

Are you editing the WME project in the "Program Files" folder by any chance? Make sure the project is in some writable folder (ideally in a subfolder of your "Documents" folder).
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Re: Issues with Pandasoft Xporter
« Reply #6 on: June 04, 2013, 04:41:38 AM »

That was the problem for me.  Weird, because it shows a different scaling number in Ac3d, but doesn't scale unless it's in an editable folder.
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Re: Issues with Pandasoft Xporter
« Reply #7 on: June 04, 2013, 07:36:48 AM »

That's a "feature" of Windows. If the file isn't writable in Program Files, Windows creates a shadow copy of the file in your private folder. Then different programs see a different version of the file, depending on how they are configured.
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