Hi Jonah,

> But the pasted polygons are not smoothed by their respective maps
> anymore. They render as faceted mesh. What to do? =(

This part sounds like a bug in Modo -- from what you describe it sounds like they don't merge the vertex normal data properly when merging polygons together.

I was thinking that some kind of scripting inside of Modo would probably help to automate the process of merging and deleting things, etc..., but I guess that if the merging just doesn't work right then scripting won't help.


I should be able to figure out some method to help you out though.

One question - will OBJ format work for you in this case? Can you do a small test and see if that seems like it will work?

If that looks like it will work, it should be really easy for me to make a little utility program that strips out the object/group label directives in it, which should make the whole file appear as one single big mesh object. It is not quite as easy to do this for LWO format, but if OBJ does not work for you I can figure something else out.

- Michael

Hi Jonah - I have attached here a MergeOBJ.exe utility - you can run this and it will pop up a file dialog and ask you to pick the .obj file. It will then edit the .obj file to remove the grouping and object label directives so it should appear as one single mesh object.

It seems like this might do the trick for you...

Let me know if you run into any problems and I can try to figure out a different way instead.

EDIT: removed the attachment and moved it to here:
http://moi3d.com/download/MergeOBJ.zip

- Michael

Works perfectly! Thanks so much Micheal. You saved me a few hours on this job alone... :)

jonah

That's great Jonah, glad I could help! Please let me know if you run into any snags.

I have also put your requests for LWO export on the wishlist.

- Michael