Wings3D Plugin Does Not Face Sides The Right Direction

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Wings3D Plugin Does Not Face Sides The Right Direction

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I am making a ultra-mini THE TWO CASTLES map, probably for 1v1 or 2v2. The whole thing is done in Wings3D, as it is easier for something this small.

When I try to export from Wings3D using the plugin, many of the sides are not facing the right direction. Help?

Attached is the Wings3D file, and the exported BZW file (with a few minor hand-changes)

Settings used: Group per material, no vue d'spirit workaround, no tesselation, Export Scale: 7, Export smoothing groups, Do not export uv coordinates
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Castle 2v2.wings
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Castle 2v2.bzw
The BZW exported from Wings3D using the plugin (settings: Group per material, no vue d'spirit workaround, no tesselation, Export Scale: 7, Export smoothing groups, Do not export uv coordinates)
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Post by dango »

in Wings Y is up axis in bzw Z is up axis

hope this info helps :wink:
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Post by TD-Linux »

Actually, it dosen't help at all. I already did that.

My problem is that the polygons do not face the right direction. Polygons are single sided, and are invisible from one side, giving the apperarance of missing polygons.

In fact, some of the polygons don't display from either side so I wonder if they are just not rendering correctly...
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Post by dango »

td r u doing this with win cause some mesh fases don't work on win for some reason
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Post by trepan »

start bzfs with -ddd on the command line.
it's probably non-planar or non-convex faces.
try exporting with triangulation.
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Post by BIYA »

I stopped using the bzw plugin. I coulf never get it right. I kept with the obj exporter.... find out what the correct export size should be and everything ;).. I havnt had a problem yet.
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Post by TD-Linux »

I have found a solution!
Many of my faces had more than one point along the same line, like this:

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*-----*-----*
|           |
*-----*-----*
That is not allowed! The faces must be split up like this:

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*-----*-----*
|     |     |
*-----*-----*
YAY! It works perfectly!
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*MOVED to another thread*
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hmm i must be having a problem then :?
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Post by 0_0_0 »

Just select your whole model in wings 3d in face editing mode, pop up the menu, and press Tesselate->Triangulate

It should fix up your mesh instantly. :)
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Being the optimizer I am, I manually go through and only split the faces that I absoulutely have to. This way, my maps run at >500 FPS!

An interesting fact: Human eyes cannot perceive motion above about 60 FPS.
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TD-Linux wrote:Being the optimizer I am, I manually go through and only split the faces that I absoulutely have to. This way, my maps run at >500 FPS!

An interesting fact: Human eyes cannot perceive motion above about 60 FPS.
Yeah, above that it goes straight into the hind brain and makes you do strange things, similar to subliminal advertising.
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Post by BIYA »

I do tesselations... but im not worried I like what I got ;)
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