Please HELP!! Max5 Morpher Catastrophe

[KiboOst]

Can't why it don't work at work if it's ok at home.
- Have you made a small morpher test at work ?
- You should have kept the targets in another scene, try reimporting them at work ? (you can also export them from the morpher I think)
- Your two max (work/home) got the same unit setup ? Dunno, maybe.. ?

:/

Kib

[jimcoldt]

Hello...

Thanks for the reply...

Actually, it's the strangest thing-- THE FILE ONLY WORKS ON MY MACHINE AT HOME.

Yes, the same file. The only major difference between the 2 systems is that my home machine is running on XP while at work, we have Win2000.

Has anyone else had this or a similar discrepancy??

Anyway, I am quite relieved but still puzzled. :shrug:


-jim

[jimcoldt]

Hello,

I guess I'll keep posting to myself in the hopes that someone else can find this information useful...

Back at work, and I've found the problem:

I saved the morph targets this time-- all the vertices in the targets have been "reordered"-- in other words, they have all been assigned new numbers, hence the screwed up morphing.

Any ideas as to why they would get renumbered?
I'm thinking it's a symmetry issue...

-jim

[nuno]

Hey

In such a situation I think the best would be to contact discreet.
If your company has a support contract the answer will be fast. The sparks forum is also a good place to look.

Good luck !

PS : please report your findings...they will benefit several people.

[jnglemeat]

Hi Jim , did oyu do any kind of mesh editing after adding Morpher, i had a similar problem a while ago. i dont know if you knew this already but maybe it can help you out, morpher needs the same amout of verteces on the original mesh and the morph targets, so if you did anything to change that you will get that crinkle thing, (looks like sharp edges) well anyway hope this helps.

[Jay Shadow]

Maybe try collapsing the stack underneith the morpher modifier and then save it. It might keep your work max from thinking bad thoughts when it figures out the stack.

[harmonic01]

Hey Jim. I'm probably a mounth too late, but might help for the future. :-)

does File Load: Unit Missmatch window pop up when you try to open the file? It happened to me once and if you don't choose to the file's unit scale then you'll get a mess like you described.

If you go to Customize/Units Setup/System Unit Setup and uncheck "respect system units in files" then you won't get a popp up and all should work fine.

[megaflaizer]

symmetry is [mainly] a modeling tool, used to preview what a symmetrical copy would look like as a whole mesh.

personally, i have found it to be SLOW, and went back to my old method of mirror/instance.

in addition, for characters, use asymmetry, esp in the face. you'll be surprised how much character this adds. to see, take aphoto of your own face. use photoshop to mirror each half - now does that ook like you? not really.

so when you get to the animation part of the pipeline, symmetry doesnt really belong - unless youre doing one of these neat-o symmetry effect animations [not the case here]

so when youre done with modeling using symmetry, COLLAPSE THE STACK! everything above can be retained as is, i also add meshsmooth to the tops of my stacks with no probs.

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