Also making sure that your texture has a dpi of 72 can help if the texture is looking blurry, on some mac machines larger relosutions can overload and blowout the quality. Textures that are multiples of 512x512 and of the power of two, will load faster. Some programs will have an export option to export triangles in the obj settings. So having your model pre-triangulated before importing into Element can help speed up import so it doesn't have to do the triangle coversion process. If you can, optimize your models to be lower in polygon count and that will help it load faster.Įlement will convert all quad polygons to triangles as that is what the GPU needs to render. For example if there are 1 million+ polygon faces on a model, it will take some time to import as that is a lot of info to load onto the GPU.
If your models are taking a while to import, the most obvious thing to look at would be the polygon count. If the model doesn't need a specific texture wrap you can use Element UV Mapping settings. If the model needs a specific wrap be sure to check your export settings program the model exported from, most programs will have an option to include Texutre/UVW Coordinates in the export.
If models are black or a solid color when adding textures, this is due to the model not being exported with Texture/UVW Coordinates out the full 3d application. Checking Auto Normals and adjusting the Edge Threshold value can help with this. If the model is not smooth, this is due to it not being exported with smoothing groups. However some few programs do not have this option, for example Cinema 4D does not, in which case you can just import the C4D project file in Element. Most programs have a checkbox in the obj export options whether to export with Normals or not.
This is due to the model not being exported with normals. MODEL IS BLACK OR GREY ON IMPORT AND WON'T ACCEPT TEXTURES This will not always fix all issues relating to reversed normals, as reflections and lighting may show up as reversed even though the geometry is visible, so fixing in a full 3d app is recommended for best results. Enabling that will generate geometry on the back side of the polygon that has a reversed normal. If you go the bottom of the material settings, there is an option called Draw Backfaces. Reversed normals can really only be fixed 100% in a full 3d program, however there is one solution that may help in Element alone. 4) 0 3D Total Eva Wild DVD1 - Modeling 3920.
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This a specific function in c4d, terminology is similar across different 1) 0 3D Total The Swordmaster pdf (for 3ds Max) 2) 0 3D Total 3DS Max Series v1 360. Top and select Reverse Normals, and that will fix the issue. In C4D you can select the blue polygons and go to Functions at the If you select the display mode “Lines”, there are also pointers that show which way a polygon normal is facing. For example in Cinema 4D, if you select all of the polygons, the polygons that are blue are polygons that are facing backwards. If you have a full 3d program (c4d, 3ds Max, etc) you can import the object into it, select the polygons that are facing backwards and reverse the normals. View a complete list of currently available file formats.Īll trademarks and trade names are the property of their respective owners.If a polygon looks like it is invisible in Element, but appears normal in a regular 3d application, this is due to a Backwards/Reversed polygon Normal. We support 3ds Max, Maya, SoftImage, Cinema 4D, Lightwave, Modo, Sketchup, and many more! Ultimate Unwrap 3D supports over 100 file formats, including FBX, DAE, ASE, DXF, LWO, OBJ, and DirectX.
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