Mudbox :: Extraordinary Vertices Error When Baking
Jun 27, 2012
I get an error both in Mudbox 2013.sp3 and 2013.sp2 when baking using subdivision method. Its reported ' too many extraordinary vertices found face , need to subdivide the mesh' and the extraction failed.
The model imported fine into Mudbox in the first place, Is there a particular count for extraordinary vertices ?
As far as I know, extraordinary vertices are as follows
Valency 3 : 3 faces connected at a single vertex
Valency 5 : 5 faces connected at a single vertex
Valenecy 5 or higher : lots of faces connected at a single vertex (top of maya sphere)
Most meshs contain valency 3 or 5, and mostly 4, why would mud box have issues with a model like this ?
Should I check for areas where there's lots of density of faces at a single vertex, or check for multiple extraordinary vertices that are close by ? Anything in UV spa
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I modeled a female body and imported from 3DSMAX to mudbox to texture but now i'm having trouble on baking the displacement map in MUDBOX. I'm using tiff 32 bit floating,7 x 7k, with search distance of 4 (i believe it's a relative good number). My source model is step 0(with about 2 million faces) and the other is step 2(with aprox. 6 million faces). I'm using target to closest model, smoothing only the source and wht i get is this: a big black image with one or another gray dot.
I saw several tutorials about wht might be. I changed several times the search distance, and also tried to bake in max. Nothing seems to work. Mudbox keeps leving me with a blck image and max gives me something strange that works a little as a displacement map but it is totaly untileble.The two images attached are from mudbox. One as i get, and in the other i tried messing with levels in photoshop but it didn't work too.
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