importing 3ds files

[hotspurs]

Whenever i go to import 3ds files in AM 10.5 with the 3ds import plugin it starts to load the 3ds file until it get to 20% and AM closes instantly. Any advice?

[C-grid]

The problem could reside in:

- A:M 10.5 handling the import plug

- The .3ds-importer plug

- A different version support of the .3ds-format specification

- The way a .3ds-model is polygon'd as a start

 

Things you could try:

- Ask someone with a newer A:M to try the import of the specific .3ds-file.(Or upgrade yourself)

- Check if there's a change in the .3ds-import plug version for A:M (Or different kind of format importers)

- You could try re-saving the .3ds-model in another 3d-polygon program(try changing format-version) or re-save it in a different format like .obj or .lwo(I dunno if there's any importer for .obj or .lwo in version 10.5)

- You could split the .3ds-model up, try to import it in AM and find where 'the boggle' is...

 

A program closing in e.g. Windows, has todo with the program generating a general protection fault, this relates to a processor-exception or OS-exception(alot of times memory).

The importer-intelligence has trouble creating and connecting CPs, makin' splines, is my suspicion, 'following' the 'flow' of the spline(s).

 

A work-around for such models is maybe using the 'newer' feature Topology and re-create a leaner model for export.

 

Knowing how to spline, is maybe the best answer

 

You could take screencaptures for use in A:M to rotoscope and skip the topology-part. (You're model isn't a landscape, is it? )

[hotspurs]

It isn't a landscape, it is a model created in 3ds max 9. I am going to upgrade later this year to the newest version of A:M, thanks I will try a few of those suggestions!

[Muff]

C-grid definately gave the best answers to this problem. And I just have to say that A:M and .3ds are not compatible as far as modelling goes. Props are O.K, but modelling, forget it. Takes forever to load something and modifications are just a disasterous mess to cleanup on. A:M is good with .obj files though, but .3ds is not worth it? At least from what Ive tried. Just trying to save you the troubles of experimenting with this format.