Workflow For Imported OBJ File

[Kaiser_Sose]

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[dmcgrath]

I'm not really sure what you need to know. Other than what you already do. :shrug:
Importing an OBJ doesn't seem to cause any problems on the computers at my school. I have seen some of them come up with strange normals problems. Even when rendered they sometimes came up black. But this always went away after a single smoothing operation.
Basically what I have been taught for any modeling operation is:
- To make each "face" planar.
- To have all of the normals pointing outward correctly.
- Quads, Quads, and Quads.
- Smooth if you want it, of course.

But beyond that, what else do you need?
I have made models at home using Wings3D and imported thme into Maya as objs. Never had any problem yet. (Except that my Wings modeling is bad)

[Atwooki]

You might want to try:

Polygons ---> seperate, and then re-map the UV's on the 'uncombined' objects....

Alternatively, if you have textures, (from LW for instance), just reimporting them via the file node in the shading group from scratch usually does the trick. ;)

Atwooki

[Kaiser_Sose]

Would I use seperate or extract on the single ' mesh ' to get the surface into sections for UV maping in maya

When I bring in the obj it comes in pretty heavy so when I just put a simple skeleton for example, and smooth bnd it to the mesh the performance is not to good

I tried using mayas reduction tool but it does not seem to work well on the obj

[Atwooki]

Yes,from the single mesh;
if its VERY dense, try the 'Progressive Mesh' plugin, it's better at poly-reduction than Maya's, but perhaps you'd be better off followong the form of your model to create a simple 'wrap' to deform your model, remembering if it's an organic form, to put at least 5 loops where all the major joints would bend.

Good Luck!

Atwooki

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