HI Rainer,
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 08:40 -0400, Rainer Schmidt wrote:
> Modo raises my blood pressure significantly...... To say the least.
Ah...so I'm not the only one slowly turning purple ;-)
> I am
> having MASSIVE problems with modo and .obj files.
> Create a simple cube with Silo and export it as .OBJ.
> XSI,ZBrush,BodyPaint can read it in all it's cubic glory. Modo crashes
> when you select it. .OBJ import problem. After tweaking my output
> parameters in ZBrush I could get some geometry into Modo. Not all. It
> has something to do with the inability to read something else than plain
> polygon files. Grouping or other fancy .OBJ format features kill Modo.
> The .OBJ output is equally limited and makes modo go HOME frequently on
> my machine. The .OBJ import/export module in modo is simply broken imho.
Correct. Any kind of hierarchy and composed objects immediately
seriously break the entire import/export, often bringing Modo to a
grinding halt/crash. I've done testing exporting to and importing
from .lwo before but with Lightwave as the final target, not XSI. That
went a lot better than going to .obj, hopefully with PO and it's native
XSI plugin things should go a lot smoother, I'll send an update to the
list as soon as I get some results with PO.
> I send all the files in question to Luxology and received a mail a few
> weeks ago with the information that it's being looked at.... I urge you,
> if possible, to do the same.
I've seen people complain about this on the Modo forums as well so I
guess it is a real problem that they know about, sadly it doesn't seem
to be a real priority to fix it.
> I put modo next onto the shelf to my
> VUE5infinity package. The Software shelf for weekend experiments. I'll
> have another look at it when it matures....
Haven't really got a choice at the moment, got a fair number of Mac-
based artists that have all content natively in Modo and I REALLY need
to get that content out.
> Modo supposedly has an
> update coming before the end of the year. And I am not talking about the
> 201 but a '103' fix. I hope they implement the file formats correctly
> till then.... Did you try LW and conversions from and into that format
> as bridge???
Haven't tried LW as a bridge yet (or perhaps Polytrans using .lwo to go
to XSI), but did a Modo -> LW conversion a while ago that went a lot
smoother than the crappy .obj export/import.
As soon as I get any real results (good or bad) I'll be sure to post
them here.
Cheers & thanks for the feedback,
Erik
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