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Ships of the Line: MEGA THREAD
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Asajj Ventress Lightsabre:
http://mattymanx.deviantart.com/art/Asajj-Ventress-Lightsabres-338329831

http://www.foundation3d.com/index.php?categoryid=38&p13_sectionid=307&p13_fileid=1537

Haven’t had a problem with any of the others… but this one always crashes D|S4 on my machine when I try to render… not sure why…

Otherwise, thanks for all the work Matty!

wancow - 26 May 2012 03:56 PM

http://www.foundation3d.com/index.php?categoryid=38&p13_sectionid=307&p13_fileid=1537

Haven’t had a problem with any of the others… but this one always crashes D|S4 on my machine when I try to render… not sure why…

Otherwise, thanks for all the work Matty!

So it does. 

I dont have time to look into this right now.  I may just remake the CR2 from scratch later on to see if it makes a difference.

wancow - 26 May 2012 03:56 PM

http://www.foundation3d.com/index.php?categoryid=38&p13_sectionid=307&p13_fileid=1537

Haven’t had a problem with any of the others… but this one always crashes D|S4 on my machine when I try to render… not sure why…

Otherwise, thanks for all the work Matty!

Crap, I love this ship! :(

I hope it doesn’t crash in mine. Haven’t tested it. I will when I get the chance, at college right now.

Thanks for bringing this thread back, Matt!

Knight22179 - 30 May 2012 11:04 AM

wancow - 26 May 2012 03:56 PM

http://www.foundation3d.com/index.php?categoryid=38&p13_sectionid=307&p13_fileid=1537

Haven’t had a problem with any of the others… but this one always crashes D|S4 on my machine when I try to render… not sure why…

Otherwise, thanks for all the work Matty!

Crap, I love this ship! :(

I hope it doesn’t crash in mine. Haven’t tested it. I will when I get the chance, at college right now.

When I look at the secondary hull, I see errant polygons I can see through… that might have to do with it.  It’s my intention to build my own in Hex eventually…

wancow - 30 May 2012 11:29 AM

When I look at the secondary hull, I see errant polygons I can see through… that might have to do with it.  It’s my intention to build my own in Hex eventually…

Thanks for pointing that out Wancow!  I will try to remember that.

Knight, your welcome!

Matty, you might want to give the v2 two-part USS Enterprise-D Poser model a check. It does not seem to want to load in Poser 8/9 or Pro 2012.
It loads okay-ish in DazStudio Pro, but not in recent versions of Poser.

Have been noticing the same type of missing segments issues on several other models.

MM-USS Defiant (Top of saucer section is invisible.)
MM-USS Ganymede (Saucer rim not showing)
Enterprise-A (triangular sections in saucer are invisible, and when changing to other registries from 1701 to 1701-A, causes more sections to vanish.)
Enterprise-E has sections invisible around the main shuttlebar door on the saucer section.
ST11 Enterprise has sections that are invisble, mainly around saucer section and on top of saucer. Usually empty or black gaps.

I’ve noticed this issue happen frequently, when I export lwo files to obj, in Lighwave, and also when I do exports in poseray. Not sure if it’s Poser. Been trying to convert a Blake’s 7 Liberator to Poser, and every version I convert, winds up with huge triangular chunks missing from the body.

So, I can guess this is not human error, but more software/coding error, either when models are transfered from lwo/max/3ds to wavefront obj, or Poser has some issue reading obj files properly.

OMG.. the geek demon in me just came roaring to the surface.. I can already see the stretch marks forming on my cable modem.

The Romulan Warbird Vladore is now available.

Mattymanx, I have a question for you.

I have 3ds Max 2013 on a 30 day trial and I am converting a number of 3ds files to use with Poser.  What did you use to convert the .obj to a pp2?  Reading the .pp2 file, I see that you used something called obj2pp2.  What is this particular piece of software?

Thanks for all of your assistance in this.

Harry Bryan

Lord Iffy - 31 May 2012 10:52 PM

Matty, you might want to give the v2 two-part USS Enterprise-D Poser model a check. It does not seem to want to load in Poser 8/9 or Pro 2012.
It loads okay-ish in DazStudio Pro, but not in recent versions of Poser.

Have been noticing the same type of missing segments issues on several other models.

MM-USS Defiant (Top of saucer section is invisible.)
MM-USS Ganymede (Saucer rim not showing)
Enterprise-A (triangular sections in saucer are invisible, and when changing to other registries from 1701 to 1701-A, causes more sections to vanish.)
Enterprise-E has sections invisible around the main shuttlebar door on the saucer section.
ST11 Enterprise has sections that are invisble, mainly around saucer section and on top of saucer. Usually empty or black gaps.

I’ve noticed this issue happen frequently, when I export lwo files to obj, in Lighwave, and also when I do exports in poseray. Not sure if it’s Poser. Been trying to convert a Blake’s 7 Liberator to Poser, and every version I convert, winds up with huge triangular chunks missing from the body.

So, I can guess this is not human error, but more software/coding error, either when models are transfered from lwo/max/3ds to wavefront obj, or Poser has some issue reading obj files properly.

I will look tomorrow if I remember in Poser 8 since that is the latest I have but if its what I think it is then on each surface in Poser’s Material Room, look for a checkbox for “Render Normals Forward”.  The newer models I am converting I am trying to remember to make mat files for for Poser to correct this in one click.  I admit I did not notice this issue in the beginning in Poser but I am trying to keep an eye on it.  Its easy to forget though since I do all the work in DS and its not an issue there.

The USS Resurection is now available!

Harry, check your PM.

Lord Iffy,

For all the Madman ships, including the ST11 Enterprise, there is a Poser Material preset for each in the Materials folder.  I forgot that I had included those.  The Mat files will fix the issues with those.

For the Enterprise-A, its the same issue as with the Madman ships except i dont have a Mat file made up at this time to fix it.  I will try to get one done by the weekend.

The Enterprise-E loads up with “Normals Forward” alread checked, or at least it does for me.  So any holes seen in the preview are not present for me in the render.  I also looked at the ship in DS and did not see any holes.  However if you are still seeing some, please do a render showing the spot so I can see if there is anything else I can do about it.

Enterprise-D… that one has me stumped.  I do not know why the model will not load.  I will have to redo it to see if I can correct it.

For the models you are working on, it may be the same issue I encounter where you need to go to the material room and for each surface, check off the “Normals Forward” option.  In DS this is not an issue since it renders normals forward by default.

Hope this helps!

The updated Enterprise D is back online.  I recommend this one over the previous version regardless of whether or not your a DS user.

Mattymanx - 30 July 2012 09:13 PM

Lord Iffy,

For all the Madman ships, including the ST11 Enterprise, there is a Poser Material preset for each in the Materials folder.  I forgot that I had included those.  The Mat files will fix the issues with those.

For the Enterprise-A, its the same issue as with the Madman ships except i dont have a Mat file made up at this time to fix it.  I will try to get one done by the weekend.

The Enterprise-E loads up with “Normals Forward” alread checked, or at least it does for me.  So any holes seen in the preview are not present for me in the render.  I also looked at the ship in DS and did not see any holes.  However if you are still seeing some, please do a render showing the spot so I can see if there is anything else I can do about it.

Enterprise-D… that one has me stumped.  I do not know why the model will not load.  I will have to redo it to see if I can correct it.

For the models you are working on, it may be the same issue I encounter where you need to go to the material room and for each surface, check off the “Normals Forward” option.  In DS this is not an issue since it renders normals forward by default.

Hope this helps!

Cheers for the hard work. You’re awesome. Will dabble with the models again, and do as you suggest.

Keep up the awesome work with the conversions, and I always love looking forward to checking out your work.