importing OBJ

[KayosIII]

What you are asking is not very clear could you be more detailed.

One thing that I will mention is that wings uses only fully enclosed shapes. so any holes in your mesh will be Filled in.

[BazC]

Krugar, if it's a model from Lightwave this is a known issue and I don't know of anything you can do about it at the moment. Obj files from other apps should be fine as far as I know.

Baz

[Jhonus]

hmmm.... well, its a maya obj file.

has anyone figured out a workaround?

[KayosIII]

Post me a copy of the file and I will have a look at it.
You can find my email address here
http://www.midcoast.com.au/~rgcoy

[Jhonus]

K, just sent the obj file via email.

Thanks Kayos

[Jhonus]

k, no worries, found the problem. i'm using maya 4.0 btw.

i'll just post the solution for anyone who cares or anyone who encounters this prob :)

see the highlighted faces in the pic below.... they are just extruded from an edge.... if u import this into wings every single face on the model gets disconnected from each other. so aahhh.... delete them first :)

[wasamonkey]

I have truespace4 the only thing I ever used it for after I found wings is fixing models like yours
there is a plugin called solidfy which makes the objet whole
truespace is also a solid geometry modeler
I think it will work with ts3 as well and heard that it was free with some mag cd
if you can't find the plugin let me know and I will host it or email it depending on the number that want

[Lunatique]

I have no extruted faces like that, and my maya model still has all verts seperated. How can I fix this??

Edit: Nevermind, I found the problem. I've got some pretty tangled up faces inside of my ear. I went ahead and seperated that sucker and saved it as a seperate file, then I exported just the head(without the messed up ear), and it's fine now. Without the messed up ear, Wings went ahead and closed up any holes automatically.

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