Broken Direct X export

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I’m a total noob, currently working my way through the Noob to Pro Tutorials. Currently playing with this one:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Building_a_House

I got impatient and exported my house before I got around to the window and doors. See attached blend.png and x.png file. When I import the Direct X file back in, all 3 objects (house, roof and chimney) are the same colour and they have all morphed together. I don’t understand why this is the case. Is there something wrong with my .blend file, did I mess up the export, or is the export script a little temperamental? I have seen this behaviour more than once.

I have no particular desire to use Direct X, but my results with the 3DS or .obj exporter are even less encouraging. As far as I can tell, the 3DS exporter doesn’t work at all, but I figure this must be operator error.

I am using Blender 2.45 (Linux & Python 2.5).

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blend.jpg1024×640 47.7 KB

x.jpg1024×640 30.1 KB

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No it’s not broken. It looks like the roof, chimney and house are three seperate meshes. When you import them their locations are reset to 0,0,0 (as you would expect in a game engine which is what the DirectX format is for) so they all appear at the same point. Join the three seperate meshes into one (CTRL J) before export.

http://www.digital-air.co.uk/

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Hi

Another suggestion if you dont want to join all the objects into one mesh.

For each of the separate objects, in object mode hit CTRL A to “apply Scale and rotation”, then try exporting. Does that fix your problem ?

Geoff

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ardee, you were right. Thanks a lot. The solution confirms my status as a noob.

GeoffW, I tried what you said as an alternative solution, but it didn’t work.