topic Re: Mesh Issues when opening file on different computers in Maya Modeling Forum

Mesh Issues when opening file on different computers

megcook — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 00:23:27 GMT

Hello,

I had someone share a Maya file with me, but when I open it, the mesh looks different than expected.

The original model:

The model on my computer:

I've had them send me an optimized file, I've tried importing the model into a new scene, but it always looks like this.

Does anyone know what could be causing this? Is the file corrupt?

File for reference: https://we.tl/t-qskWnJCTno

TIA!

Re: Mesh Issues when opening file on different computers

hamsterHamster — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 10:01:50 GMT

The original model already looks suspicious. And then, upon optimization, they possibly screwed it up even further, as it opens with errors and the mesh apparently has its non-manifold woes:

Get that unoptimized model and run Mesh > Cleanup (options), copy the settings from my image, except, first option should be set to Cleanup... then fix the "fixed" geo - fill holes, weld open vertices/merge edges etc. Or, ask them to perform optimization properly.

Re: Mesh Issues when opening file on different computers

megcook — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 15:03:13 GMT

I will pass that information along. Thank you for the help!