Maya FBX Importing

Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 1

This course will look at the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. We'll look at what makes a good model in Maya and why objects are modeled in the way they are.

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# 1 13-04-2010 , 12:50 PM

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My problem basicly is that when I try to import using FBX from Mudbox to Maya, Maya freezes.
My model is a plane with 1,400,000 Poly's(A flat one sided surface not a flying machine haha)
It's of a snow hill area with rocks.
One bump map and one for the texture.

I have Windows 7 64 bit
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There's no lag at all in Mudbox, it runs amazing smooth.

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# 2 13-04-2010 , 01:31 PM

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Hi SwordOfValor
Have you tried a low poly model with a normal map or displacement map like you can do in zbrush.............dave

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# 3 13-04-2010 , 01:40 PM

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Nope. Haven't tried that yet dave.

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# 4 14-04-2010 , 12:17 AM

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That is a boat load of poly's. The idea of using mudbox and maya is to ship a base mesh to mudbox, subdivide to a gazillion poly's then sculpt, and then create a normal map, and send that back to maya and apply it to the base mesh.

That being said, I have built models in maya with over 2 million poly's and that was with my 2GB of memory system so you should be able to handle 1.4M poly's.

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# 5 14-04-2010 , 01:17 AM

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Ohhh, you did the 2 mil poly's with a normal map or like how I'm doing it?

I used one of the pre-made planes that came with mudbox to make this cliff, could that be a problem or maybe it's a windows 7 compatibility problem?

Windows 7 64-bit
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# 6 14-04-2010 , 02:30 AM

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You might want to try importing a smaller model back into maya just to rule out the poly count issue.

I don't really use mudbox or zbrush for modeling as they are for organic modelers that are more artistic sculptors. I focus more on hard surface technical modeling.

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Isaac Newton, 1675

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