Triangulated object smoothing & pivot points...

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#1

Hi All,

I was wondering if somebody could help me with a little challenge I’ve run into:

I’ve imported a Collada DAE file from C4D, which has maintained my beautiful animation, but triangulated all my object faces and prevents me from smoothing the mesh (Subdivision surface). As a possible solution, I’m trying to import the (static) object into Blender via OBJ (which maintains the quads) then align the object to it’s triangulated version.

Question 1:

Is there a way to maintain quads + animation coming out of C4D?

Question 2:

If not, what is the best method to convert the triangulated to quads or smooth? (like 3DS Max’s Turbosmooth)

Question 3:

Is there a straightforward way to align a child objects’ pivot point and orientation to that of its parent? The geometry is the same, but the child object has a different pivot point.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

#2

For question 2, there is a mesh option (in edit mode MESH>FACES>TRIS to QUADS) to convert tris to quads. Of course you’ll have to limit your selection if you wish to keep triangles that you have or need.

#3

Do you have HyperNURBS on the object you are trying to import? That is a no no. Or, have you tried different import script?