[catalinux]

Anytime I compile a level mesh 3ds to a ZEN in Spacer (Gothic 1) I get a few holes in the level mesh.

Does anyone know what is this related to and how can I prevent this?

The long explanation

- I am editing the level mesh in Blender 2.66
- I export the level mesh as a 3ds file using Kerrax Imp/Exp plugins
- I load the exported 3ds mesh in Spacer 1.41
- I compile the world
- I compile the light
- I export the compiled world to ZEN (compiled, not ascii)
- I load the new world ingame, I see the holes in mesh
- this drives me crazy

Any insight would be much appreciated.

[Milky-Way]

Are you sure that the holes aren't there yet in the spacer?

Have you checked whether the holes always appear at the same polys?

My initial guess is that a poly there is flipped and you placed the texture on the backside of it, which is possible in Blender. However, Gothic can't deal with 2-sided polys.

[catalinux]

The holes always appear at the same polys. They change only if I change the sea plane. This level mesh is made from cut and paste bits from other meshes. As soon as I use another sea plane, the holes moves to other polys.

[Ska-Ara]

did you checked if this tri/vert is alignt to the rirght site? maybe its just flipped so its shows the texture in the wrong direction

[catalinux]

did you checked if this tri/vert is alignt to the rirght site? maybe its just flipped so its shows the texture in the wrong direction

I flipped a few verts and they disappeared. But I couldn't figure a way to check this in the whole level, so I did something else: Edit Mode - Mesh - Faces - Beautify - this got rid of some of the degenerate polygon errors, and after this it looks like the mesh is alright.

I hope this solved my problem. Thanks!

[TheBigLeBRUCEky]

I flipped a few verts and they disappeared. But I couldn't figure a way to check this in the whole level, so I did something else: Edit Mode - Mesh - Faces - Beautify - this got rid of some of the degenerate polygon errors, and after this it looks like the mesh is alright.

I hope this solved my problem. Thanks!

- First go to the 3D-View window
- Edit Mode
- press N
- goto Mesh Display
- look for Normals
- press the 3rd Button(Face Normals)
- for large Faces you can change the size of the Normal(to see them better)
- now you can see the blue lines(they show you the direction of your polygons)

- again 3D-View window(Edit Mode)
- press A(select all polys)
- press CTRL + N(recalculate outside) or CTRL + SHIFT + N(recalculate inside)
- this should flip all selected polys in one direction(if the mesh is worked out well)
- normally it works fine(only very complicated meshes could make problems)

for example:
- choose only the ground of your mesh
- recalculate the polys as i discribed
- if the lines show up(to the sky) it is correct
- just for controlling what you should use(inside or outside)

MfG