S. Houtzager Posted November 28, 2012 Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 Hey folks, Trying to get to the bottom of this. With FZ V7, when exporting to fact "with" a texture map and importing into EI V9, it does not work. The material changes to a purple (always) and the map is not viewable in Electric Image. I tested it so that the map starts as a jpeg so no conversion has to happen. Tried this with FormZ V6.7 and it is the same. Here is a simple test. http://intuitionusa.com/1/formz.png Wondering if it is Electric Image's issue or FormZ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted November 28, 2012 Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 Ola Steven! I heard from another use about this problem on new FormZ export, please, contact formZ Support <support@formz.com> And send me the project too. Thanks Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S. Houtzager Posted November 28, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 This was FZ's reply as I posted in FZ at the same time. Steven, We have not changed the behavior of this export in years, and it has always worked, so I suspect that this is an Electric Image v9 issue. Import the FACT file back into formZ. If the texture shows there -- then report this to EIAS... Well I imported the fact back into FZ 7 and the maps were there although flipped. Here is the fact and map ready to place into EI. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5048027/Archive.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted November 28, 2012 Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 Ola Steven! Same problem in EIAS 8 and EIAS 9, in the Material window of each group, you need to use the replace button, but the textures are not coming correct placed, How are they placed in FormZ? As soon I have time, I will try EIAS 7 or EIAS 6.6 Thanks Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S. Houtzager Posted November 28, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 Cubic mapped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 Ola S, Same problem with EIAS 7, I will add in our list here, lets see whats wrong, if its a FormZ export problem or not. Thanks Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S. Houtzager Posted November 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 Hey Tomas, I took the fact that FZ exported and reimported that into FZ to test. It worked fine so it could be an EI issue. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigayoda Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 Hi Steven, A screenshot of your fact export settings might help. I just had some trouble this past weekend just getting the geometry to come through. FormZ changed some settings in the "Decomposition" triangulation options that I found helped me resolve some of the issue I had. I'm not in front of my workstation right now but I'll try to get some of my settings that have worked. I believe Form-Z hasn't changed their export methods but they've changed the way models are built and triangulated. Some are 4 sided some are deconstructed as 3 sided polys. If I recall correctly EI liked 4 sided faces. Tom I recall there was a link in the forum that showed some base settings out of FormZ to EI. Maybe a new EI9 FormZ workflow thread may be needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S. Houtzager Posted November 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 Hey Gigayoda, I haven't been having any issues with geometry coming into EI. I even got a FZ7 smooth model into EI without an issue just from the standard fact export. Just the maps. Will test that out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meester smeeth Posted December 21, 2012 Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 Hello there Could you try exporting from FormZ as an OBJ and see how that goes? That has usually worked for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S. Houtzager Posted December 21, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 I have tried that. I lose the layers. I could group items but I have so many that it takes a bunch of time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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