Aligning normals via reimport instead of manually

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• crosswind Posts: 9,537

  October 5 edited October 5

  There's no such an option of flipping normal when importing assets in DS... AFAIK. You either manually do it with Geometry Editor in DS or with external applications, like Blender, C4D...

  Post edited by crosswind on October 5
• richardandtracy Posts: 7,077

  October 5

  It was this sort of issue that led me to add an arrow to show a facet normal to my home written modeller. It allows me to quickly see and select facets with reversed normals. I failed to go one step further and make them match a selected one if on a contiguous surface - the programming was difficult. Regards, Richard.
• mmdestiny Posts: 192

  October 5 edited October 5

  crosswind said:

  There's no such an option of flipping normal when importing assets in DS... AFAIK. You either manually do it with Geometry Editor in DS or with external applications, like Blender, C4D...

  Not necessiily looking for a literal option in the import itself.  More like I'm wondering if, say I fix everything in C4D, then export as an obj.  If I were to use "Load UV Set" to load that obj, would DAZ pick up that the normals have changed?  I'm not sure where in the asset the normal information is stored.  Or perhaps load the fixed obj in morph loader pro, and even though there's nothing new IN the morph (no changed deltas), maybe it would pick up the change to the normals.

  Post edited by mmdestiny on October 5
• crosswind Posts: 9,537

  October 6

  mmdestiny said:

  crosswind said:

  There's no such an option of flipping normal when importing assets in DS... AFAIK. You either manually do it with Geometry Editor in DS or with external applications, like Blender, C4D...

  Not necessiily looking for a literal option in the import itself.  More like I'm wondering if, say I fix everything in C4D, then export as an obj.  If I were to use "Load UV Set" to load that obj, would DAZ pick up that the normals have changed?  I'm not sure where in the asset the normal information is stored.  Or perhaps load the fixed obj in morph loader pro, and even though there's nothing new IN the morph (no changed deltas), maybe it would pick up the change to the normals.

  You need to import the full OBJ file...The data of normals can either be saved within the geometry library of its DSF file in data folder...or saved in a DUF scene file without saving Figure / Prop assets.
• mmdestiny Posts: 192

  October 6

  crosswind said:

  You need to import the full OBJ file...The data of normals can either be saved within the geometry library of its DSF file in data folder...or saved in a DUF scene file without saving Figure / Prop assets.

  That's what I was afraid of.  That means I'd have to redo all the custom bone weighting  which would take 100x longer than just hand selecting the polys to flip in daz lol
• mmdestiny Posts: 192

  October 6

  crosswind said:

  You need to import the full OBJ file...The data of normals can either be saved within the geometry library of its DSF file in data folder...or saved in a DUF scene file without saving Figure / Prop assets.

  I figured out the solution, though it was case specific.  It was never a normals problem. Turns out this clothing item was composed of two "shells" floating extremely close to each other (>1mm, the inside of the clothing is a different color than the outside and the inside can be seen because it's baggy and has some openings) and when the creator fit the clothing to the character they didn't realize some of the internal shell got hit by the weight differrently so it broke through the external shell.
  I had to manually tweak those broken through polys back in C4D and then just load it as a corrective morph like usual.  
• crosswind Posts: 9,537

  October 6

  Okay, got it ~