Scenery Errors

[Reiper]

I've recently found an exception halt error when trying to create a piece of scenery. I've found a similar error to do with animation graphs, but the information relating to my error has eluded me. Here I will post the entirety of my error message.

Couldn't read map file './toolbeta.map'
### Spartan Monument.jms
EAX: 0xFFFFFFFE
EBX: 0x0020E601
ECX: 0x0012F160
EDX: 0x000002CC
EDI: 0x0012F160
ESI: 0x00000000
EBP: 0x0012F038
ESP: 0x0012F028
EIP: 0x7C90EB94, C3 8D A4 24 ?????
EXCEPTION halt in .\intermediate_geometry.c,#444: triangle->material_index>=0 &&
triangle->material_index<old_material_count
Clearly, there error has something to do with materials, but I can't figure out what is wrong with the way i've set them up. If anyone can provide some pointers, please do so. I would greatly appreciate it.

[teh lag]

http://modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?t=7149&highlight=material_index%26lt%3Bold_material_count

Heh, again?

Yeah, you've got a bad material ID somewhere.

[Reiper]

Wow... Is it possible to -rep myself? Tweek was right. I need to learn to search better.




your answer is in there.
learn to search.

that thread is actually on THIS PAGE.
extra-fail

I have to apologize once again for being stupid and leave myself open to slaps upside the head in addition to the one I'm giving myself now.

[paladin]

No need to apologize for your mistakes as long as you recognize them and learn from them. Sometimes it takes another person to point out whats under your nose.

[Reiper]

Thanks for that paladin. Um I have another question and I didn't want to waste this thread. Although I did find an answer on a number of other threads, that answer is not working for me for some reason. I've been correcting these same (possibly recurring) errors for about three days now, and I'm getting a little frustrated. Basically, I will get a small number of open edge errors, which I correct, then I after I export, tool rejects it saying that there are now overlapping faces (orange). So I import the .wrl and look for orange polys, correct the error by deleting the faces and recreating them, and I re-export it. Now here's the crazy bit: Either new open edges occur, or overlapping faces occur in a different part of the model. I must have exported about fifty times over the course of the last few days, and I'm not sure what to do now.

By the way, should I be concerned about the warning about nearly coplanar faces (red and green), or not since it usually exports fine in my previous experience?

[paladin]

Dont worry about coplanar faces, theyre a waste of your time. As for the open edges, try selecting all vertices and welding. Some times youll have two vetices in a spot and have triangles attached to either one.

[Reiper]

I've tried that. I'm wondering if anyone ever had these recurring errors. I mean, shouldn't either all errors appear in the .wrl in the first place or is something I'm doing causing the errors. I hope it's not the latter.

[paladin]

Try remodeling it...

[Reiper]

I was hoping to avoid that, but I guess it has reached that point. Thanks for your help paladin.

[paladin]

np