maya export results in invisible mesh

[mchen]

I've been playing with Ogre for a week now and absolutely love it

I am using a maya model that I purchased online. I added some animations and ran it through the maya exporter to get my "mannequin.mesh" and "mannequin.skeleton" files. I couldn't view it in the mesh viewer, but I tried it out in one of the tutorial applications. It shows up under spotlights as a transparent model with shadows, but is invisible otherwise. I need a solid model, not a transparent one. The animations work fine so I know the skeleton exported ok.

Other things I've tried:
I can view the .mesh.xml in 3D Object Converter but not the .mesh.
I tried running XMLConverter on the .mesh.xml, but get nothing - no .mesh file and no error messages. (Obviously having trouble with XMLConverter as well).

Anyway, I've been struggling with this for the past two days and could really use some advice.

Thanks everyone.

[mchen]

Not being a modeler and running out of time, I gave up on Maya and found a workaround with blender.

I ended up taking the mesh.xml that was exported from Maya and opened it with 3D Object Converter. From there, I exported it to a Blender .obj file. I opened the .obj in Blender and exported it to .xml, ran that through the xml converter and finally got a working mesh.

A very round about solution, but at least the converted .xml is no longer transparent, but solid now.

[bisco]

Hey
sorry to answer so late but I missed the thread...
Can you post the maya scene you used so I can make a couple of tests and hopefully correct the bug from the exporter?
I wonder what the problem could be... maybe the wrong version of the xml converter?

[mchen]

hi bisco,

i can't post the scene. would it be alright if i emailed it to you?

[bisco]

sure, send it at
fra.giordana@tiscali.it