Interesting observation

Deprecated XMesh Alpha Discussion
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Hi Paul, me again

i was playing a but lately with xmesh, and i know this may sound strange/stupid but i tried this:

  • i tried to export alembic.abc imported cache as xmesh, and files r “big” but when i load back xmesh there is nothing in viewport, u can feel the heavy rotation in viewport but no mesh…

  • also same thing happen with realflow mesh, imported into maya and exported as xmesh, load back into maya and nothing

so my question is, is this possible, to export other cache format or im asking to much :slight_smile:

thx

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I suspect this is a bug.
For example there is a known bug in XMesh Loader for Maya where faces coming from 3ds Max that have no material assigned do not show up in Maya. You might be observing a similar problem where some important channel is getting lost in the process.
We will have to investigate (the real Beta test is starting soon!)

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Hi Bobo,

well as far as i can see there is nothing in the scene, i ever tried to apply some shader and render it out but nothing, black even in alpha channel

ill wait for investigation :slight_smile:

thx & cheers

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That’s what I meant - in those cases we know about, Maya does not draw anything, although the polygons exist in the file. So if none of the Max faces had a valid material assignment, Maya would show zero polygons, as if the mesh were empty.