Hi, i downloaded softimage this morning, but this problem also occured when i put it in milkshape... and I was wondering how to get rid of this: there are weird lines and stuff all through the model, (which is acemastermind's symmetrical stormtrooper)
but it also happend with the standard storm and shock troopers. is there a way to get rid of this?

these lines are the shadowvolume you have to weld boundary poins/edges with a tolerance of 0,001 on the model then you can select the model/sv witht he polygonisland selection or by selecting one poly and frowing the selection and then extracting the obkect

um, in noob terms?

DarthD.U.C.K. wrote:These lines are the shadowvolume you have to Weld Boundary Points/Edges with a tolerance of 0.001 on the model then you can select the model/sv with the Polygon Island selection filter or by selecting one poly and growing the selection(shift++) and then extracting the object (Extract Polygons Delete)

red are tool/commands and blue are settings

um, all i did was this:

and i got:


um now there are the wacky lines...

you should probably read my post again, if you follow it exactly you wont get these weird edges

i got it, i moved away the outer armor shell and deleted the blocky insides!



P.S ho would i go about skinning and getting this ingame?

there are some nice tutorials in this section
theyll answer both questions

how can i prevent this?:

all the standard UV's have been destroyed, and i can't put it back together...

how did you destroy them?

i followed the tutorial about skinning in 6.0, my helmet skinned fine (barely noticable in pic)
the backpack uv's are messed up also, can you put stock models in mod tool?

i suppose you created a new texture projection
simply leave that part out and only apply the texture, the model will use the original UVs then

got it thanks