No materials in my .gmf files

[Raul]

My artist made me a simple scene. A gate with some walls..

 

He gave me the 3ds file and some jpgs. First I converted the jpegs to dds using DDS Converter from Tools.

 

Second I used a 3ds to gmf converter and I obtain the gmf file. The problem is that I have no materials set for this model. I mean, I made the material file... but in the GMF Viewer the Surface 1 -> Material is null. Why is this happening?

[cassius]

This can happen when there is no mat file or a failure to generate mipmaps when saving as dds. Don't know about 3ds format but obj format converts well on non animated objects.

[Raul]

There is a mat file made by me. The problem is that the model itself has no ideea what material to load...

 

I cannot talk now with my artist. I will ask him tomorrow to give me an obj instead of a 3ds. Maybe when he saved the 3ds he crashed something?

[Guest Red Ocktober]

i had a similar issue when i was converting using UU3D... if there are no animations i had to make sure export anims was unchecked... just some unrelated insight that may help...

 

--Mike

[Raul]

no chance. The only files which are working are FBX files.

 

Also we tried the 3dmax plugin to export directly the GMF files and sometimes is working ok so I guess we are ok for now.

[cassius]

Did you use Genmat to make mat file?Could we take a look at your mat file content?

[Raul]

cassius, the problem is not my mat file. the problem is that, after conversion the gmf file does not have any material set at Surface 1. It is empty...