Maya FBX Importing
 

My problem basicly is that when I try to import using FBX from Mudbox to Maya, Maya freezes.
My model is a plane with 1,400,000 Poly's(A flat one sided surface not a flying machine haha)
It's of a snow hill area with rocks.
One bump map and one for the texture.

I have Windows 7 64 bit
8 gigs of Ram
Fire GL 8650
Amd Phenom II 965 Black Edition
750 Gig Harddrive

There's no lag at all in Mudbox, it runs amazing smooth.

Hi SwordOfValor
Have you tried a low poly model with a normal map or displacement map like you can do in zbrush.............dave

Nope. Haven't tried that yet dave.

That is a boat load of poly's. The idea of using mudbox and maya is to ship a base mesh to mudbox, subdivide to a gazillion poly's then sculpt, and then create a normal map, and send that back to maya and apply it to the base mesh.

That being said, I have built models in maya with over 2 million poly's and that was with my 2GB of memory system so you should be able to handle 1.4M poly's.

Ohhh, you did the 2 mil poly's with a normal map or like how I'm doing it?

I used one of the pre-made planes that came with mudbox to make this cliff, could that be a problem or maybe it's a windows 7 compatibility problem?

You might want to try importing a smaller model back into maya just to rule out the poly count issue.

I don't really use mudbox or zbrush for modeling as they are for organic modelers that are more artistic sculptors. I focus more on hard surface technical modeling.

Yeh, so I imported a smaller model and it imported quite fast and easy. What shall I do?