LightWave question (poly flipping)

Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:37 am by Leonhart

I have finally decided to export all my old models from DOGA into lightwave. The problem is that all the polygons that were duplicated in DOGA are inverted when imported in LW. In order to fix this I have to select each inverted polygon and flip them. This task is extremely time consuming so I am just wondering if there is a plug in, or a command that allows you to flip polygons according to X,Y,Z grid, and or by comparing each side of the model and align the polygons. I used Align Polygon function, but that does more harm than good since well it flips even the normal polygons. Make Poly Double-Sided is the best (fixes the prob in a sec) but it doubles the poly count...so only other option I know of is to manually select each polygon and flip it, anyone know of a easier way??

Tue Jun 28, 2005 11:29 am by Argh

Well... what formats does DOGA export?

Tue Jun 28, 2005 11:45 am by Leonhart

DOGA got multiple exports, but the one I used to export is DXF

Wed Jun 29, 2005 6:54 am by Argh

DXF is the worst of all possible formats

It's not designed for trimesh modelers, and does an absolutely terrible job- low-poly things tend to become higher-poly when converted, because DXF is an engineering format, and precision is more important than polycount. Iow... don't use it unless you don't have any other choices

Use 3DS or OBJ if they're available, LWO if they aren't. I haven't looked at DOGA for quite awhile, but I'd be really surprised if it didn't export in one of these formats.

Wed Jun 29, 2005 5:06 pm by Leonhart

well yes it can export to those..ermm..but I cant do that. I lost all my DOGA models after reformat, and was lucky enough to have most of them in DXF format. So unluckily I am stuck with DXF

Wed Jun 29, 2005 5:50 pm by PantherX

Leo it's good to see you m8 it's been a long time

.

Send me the files and I'll have a look and see what I can do

Fri Jul 01, 2005 8:46 am by Leonhart

hehe too long bro, TOO long

glad to see you are still around as well, and also check ur mail, I sent u 2 examples of the problem. An thats easily fixed manualy, and other thats just...phew

Sun Oct 02, 2005 3:15 pm by Admiral Alex

Yeah, I know this is an old topic, but to solve your problem:

In 7.0+: Details tab, Align.
In 6.0+: Polygon, Align.

It's that simple.

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