Missing Mesh

[Spinell]

Hi everyone.

I've made my first mesh dress, with some details and it's all one single mesh object. It's also rigged. When I go to upload it, for some reason, some of the parts of the mesh are missing. In this case, the dress part is missing but the details are uploaded. Again, in blender I have this as one single mesh.

Same thing happened with a pairt of shorts: this time, some details were missing and large chunks of the shorts weren't there, leaving gaping holes. Same thing: one mesh, rigged.

I tried recalculating and inverting normals, but it didn't do a thing. I don't know what's causing this. Could someone help me fix it?

Thank you!

[Masami Kuramoto]

How many materials did you use?

[Spinell]

Two materials: one for the main part of the dress and another for the details.

[Masami Kuramoto]

So basically the main part material doesn't show up. Could it be transparent? Can you see the missing part in the preview window before uploading? Can you see it after you enable "highlight transparent"?

[Spinell]

Yes, it's transparent in the uploader preview. I couldn't find the option to highlight transparency though...

[Pamela Galli]

I would double check materials, to be on the safe side; I thought I had fewer than 8 but did not realize that I had made material, material.001, material.002. 

[Spinell]

Ok, so I decided to just delete the materials (didn't need them anyways) and tried again to upload. No luck. Dress still invisible. Any other ideas about what might be causing this?

[Min Barzane]

along with having more than 8 materials flipped faces can also do what you describe

If you are using blender switch to texture view mode to see if annything is transparent,if it is go to edit mode,select ewerything and recalculate normals,in most cases that corrects all messed up faces all to same side,if they are wrong way just use flip normals to get them outside

[Kwakkelde Kwak]

How big is your model? And what kind of connection do you have? The bigger the number of triangles and the more unstable your connection, the higher the chances of things going missing on upload. Are the same parts missing always?

[Spinell]

Someone told me in-game that it might be because I was just working with too many faces on my model. I seperated the dress from the details and indeed, the dress showed up fine. I guess the details are just too heavy; I might have to re-do them...

 

By the way, could anyone tell me a limit of paces or vertexes that SL can handle in one single model upload?

[Kwakkelde Kwak]

The real limit is 65000 vertices per object, which translates to roughly 130000 faces.

You might expect trouble with numbers not quite as high though because of packet loss I think.

Wiki

Those numbers really aren't needed for any SL clothing and will result in an unreasonable graphical load. The second life avatar you are dressing is only about 7000 faces.