"Failed to export." (pov-ray export, uv mapping)

#1

I keep getting this message when I try to uv map either just a few faces or a few bodies of my model. Do you have to uv map everything in a file to be able to export properly? I’m trying to export to Pov-ray.

http://www.geocities.com/iancrofoot/controllerhard2.JPG

And I did try uv mapping the entire controller (figuring I could change the textures later in pov) but I got an error message like “There was a problem with numbering” or something similar.

Does anyone know a workaround? Or is this just a bug in the pov-ray export plugin?

#2

In my experience with that exporter, every face on a body should be mapped, but not all bodies have to be mapped. So you can mix mapped and unmapped bodies but you can’t successfully export partially mapped bodies.

And I did try uv mapping the entire controller (figuring I could change the textures later in pov) but I got an error message like “There was a problem with numbering” or something similar.

Was that error in povray or in Wings? I haven’t run across that before. I’ve used the povray exporter successfully with reasonably large, complicated, multi-body meshes, so maybe there is something in the geometry it does not like. Possible option: export all the bodies you can without Wings producing an error. Find the body that is causing the error by a process of elimination. Then examine that geometry carefully for errors/try using the cleanup options in the body menu. I have had the exporter crash before, but only when there has been a problem with a mesh.

#3

Yeah that was an error in wings.

Thanks for the tip though. I’ll see what I can do now.

#4

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