Fabian, I might not have declared it that way... but the C4D part was an
attempt on an aprils fool joke 8-)....
I have managed to import crazy amounts of poly's into 5.x. ZBrush's Geometry
works well. And due to the fact that the displacement mapping is such a PITA
and I am not really animating anything right now, I just import the mega mio
meshes. No problem. I often use about 2.3-2.5GB in XP32 but it works its way
through. The real challenge are meshes from pretty much anything else. There
are three problem areas in the importer, one is the area with the non
existant error messages, the other the bug with the UV's (wrong W's), and
the other is the area of 'confusing' geometry which shoots the entire system
right out of the saddle without any further comment.
I am sure that it will be fixed till SigGraph. It's in Boston this year,
which is just around the corner for me. I'm getting tar and feathers ready
hahaha. Or should that be Poutine and feathers haha.
Cheers
Rainer
> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: "Fabian" <admin(at)schnuer.com>
> An: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
> Betreff: RE: 5.1 Download now
> Datum: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 04:05:08 +0200
>
> If its poly then maybe 3ds might work, I manages to get in a million+ 3ds
> >from max with a gazzilion objects and xsi handled it despite it taking a
> good long coffee break. Don?t know how it would handle texture-coords
> though
> since this was untextured. Also as additional problem the 3ds had its
> scale
> way buggered and some genius on max liked to have the model 100000+ units
> off to positive X (this was in max and not the importer). There was also a
> tutorial somewhere online on getting IGES into XSI which seems to be an
> art
> in itself but do-able. I have tried it once on a huge house and gave up
> dumping tesselated obj out of Rhino. That was before I saw the tut.
>
> Good luck,
> Fabian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
> Of
> Rainer Schmidt
> Sent: 02 April 2006 03:11
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: RE: 5.1 Download now
>
> Thanks Fabian
>
> yes, Rhino is essential when you step into the world of rapid prototyping
> and the industrial design world. It is also a quick and reliable way to
> convert autocad and other formats into files XSI can load if you want to
> do
> Previz work....
>
> The problem I have is more related to models which are already textured.
> XSI
> is simply broken in that respect after 5.x came out. There is also a story
> behind that... The programmer who wrote the 4.2 obj importer/exporter was
> not utilized to write the new one and the guy who did it did a shoddy job.
> That's life. But they should correct it. It's just so basic. Unfortunately
> I
> have to convert a lot of meshes and am continuously inconvenienced. And
> like
> a boil it continues to aggravate me... grrrrr.
>
> But hey, you know what, I will use XSI do export my animated meshes into
> C4D
> as C4D did not boather me a single time. 3 Grand and the pain is over
> with.
> No maintenance or upgrades for SoftImage this year.
>
> Cheers and have a great weekend!
> Rainer
>
> > --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> > Von: "Fabian" <admin(at)schnuer.com>
> > An: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
> > Betreff: RE: 5.1 Download now
> > Datum: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 00:29:14 +0200
> >
> > You might want to consider adding Rhino to the arsenal. Industrial
> > design people I've heard from have it around just as a step between
> > their other apps since it writes very clean files with lots of export
> > options. Might be worth a shot. The industrial folks I talked to rely
> > more on IGES though so I don't know if what they say about Rhino
> > refers to its obj abilities too.
> > There is a demo so giving it a try is free.
> >
> > All the best,
> > Fabian
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> > Behalf Of Rainer Schmidt
> > Sent: 01 April 2006 19:11
> > To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> > Subject: Re: 5.1 Download now
> >
> > They have various meshes with various problems from me over the past
> > few month without any resolution other then I should use 4.2 and
> > convert to one of the other formats and somehow get it into 5.x.
> > Unfortunately the export and re-import between 4. and 5.x is not
> > without it's own limitations. It's embarrassing and I lost a few jobs
> > because I could not import and render a few scenes I should make for a
> > sign maker. A quick workflow consisting out of the procurement of
> > some Daz or Renderosity or Turbosquid models and setting up a quick
> > scene for a signmaker around the corner has lead consecutively to time
> > disasters as XSI made it necessary to re texture the entire models
> > because of the abysmal import capabilities.
> > And
> > pressing the max import button with the window popping up which tells
> > me that I have to procure max 8 to be able to read scenes/models just
> > made my jaw drop down to the floor. Probably the next .obj import
> > button fix is to install a C4D license with it's flawless .obj
> > import/export... I am not happy and discovering the differences
> > between announcements, deliverable and my own expectations does not
> > give me a warm and fuzzy feeling right now either...
> >
> > Good day for gardening...
> > Rainer
> >
> >
> > On Apr 1, 2006, at 9:28 AM, Tim Leydecker wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Rainer,
> > >
> > > also managed to create an *.obj file that instantly crashes XSI 5.01.
> > > Am currently packing it for uploading it to their ftp.
> >
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