^ title says it all I do it and it wont work but the bitmaps work.


building intermediate geometry...
building collision geometry...
reducing collision geometry...
building collision bsp...
### ERROR found z buffered triangles (red).
### ERROR couldn't build bsp because of overlapping surfaces (orange).
### ERROR couldn't build bsp2d.
### ERROR couldn't build leaf.
### ERROR failed to import collision bsp.

I had the same problem. Import the WRL that tool generates into your Max file and look for the colors (in this case red and orange). Delete the area surrounding those spots and remodel it.

um i cant see the map file when I drag into 3ds it just shows a orange square

Actually, the red ones are safe to ignore, but they "should" be fixed. The only reason tool didn't like it was because of overlapping faces. Find an delete the ones covered in orange when you import the .wrl file.
Edited by chrisk123999 on Dec 21, 2009 at 05:21 PM

Did you import in the WRL with the map file open?

if you don't fix the z-buffers you'll get errors in sapien when you run radiosity. they're easy to fix.

ok i got the wrl to work and theres a orange thing is all i can see of the colors on my map. so in steps 1 through whatever tell me what to do

weld verts of the z-buffers

I think I know what the problume is when you are loading the wrl file.

when you get the VRML import box showing up untick the 3 input options and you map will also showup and the just follow the other answers.

Hope this is some help

still wont work ima try remodel it.

May be stupid, but what is a z bufferd error exactly? I am familiar with fixing them but never truley understood what it is?

tbh i don't really have a good explanation but they're sort of like degenerate tris that still meet swr. like if you were to take a really thin scalene tri, tessellate, and then pull the central vert far away from the main group so that the remaining sides were almost coplaner....i'm probably completely wrong about all of this i just use magic and they go away.

"This problem is typically caused by the overlapping or interpenetration of geometry or faces."

Right from the HEK tutorial. You have faces overlapping other faces.

aaah thank you very much. Things have to make sence before they can resinate.