Hand-made lower LODs stretch

[m0ld]

It's not a super urgent issue, but I am looking for the correct way to add multiple LODs of a model manually.

I am making 3 unrigged paws which are linked objects.

In Blender, I applied all scales and rotations. Each LOD export has the objects named "paw 1", "paw 2" and "paw3"

When I upload the lowest LOD paws on their own, they look like this

But when I set them as a submesh to these paws:

the lowest LOD suddenly looks like this!

I've exported various LODs (about 4 different LOD levels to see what I liked best) and they all have the strangely raised or lowered toes. I can't figure out a common link between why the mesh would look this way.

And yes, it does this upon import as well:

(this is a different LOD level i was testing earlier today)

https://i.gyazo.com/af24317c1420ab56f5ef3d423ebd2b60.mp4

 

[Kyrah Abattoir]

First thing first, why are you uploading multiple objects at the same time?

To me, it looks like they are getting assigned the wrong lod.

[m0ld]

Ahh - I totally didn't notice that they are totally being swapped around! Which is odd, because my naming scheme is consistent
I was trying to upload multiple objects for matter of convenience and to save L once I import these into main grid, but it's being the opposite of convenient right now.

 

[arton Rotaru]

5 hours ago, m0ld said:

my naming scheme

There is an official naming convention for the LoDs and Phys models:
https://community.secondlife.com/knowledgebase/english/uploading-a-mesh-model-r274/#Section__4_1

Edited September 12, 2019 by arton Rotaru

[m0ld]

1 hour ago, arton Rotaru said:

There is an official naming convention for the LoDs and Phys models:
https://community.secondlife.com/knowledgebase/english/uploading-a-mesh-model-r274/#Section__4_1

Sorry -- by naming scheme I mean the naming of the individual objects within the scene, e.g. paw1, paw2, and paw3 being the exact same in both my LOD0 and physics. I will be uploading these paws one by one, but have a few more future uploads that are linksets which will have their own LODs, and am wondering if maybe I need to name the objects within the scene differently.

[arton Rotaru]

Yeah, it's the objects in the scene who have to follow the naming convention. I should have mentioned that, because the Knowledge Base description is still misleading.

Edited September 12, 2019 by arton Rotaru

[m0ld]

Right... thanks for clearing that up Arton! it also doesn't say what you would name a high LOD mesh. Would that be _LOD3? so, paw1_LOD3, paw2_LOD3 and paw3_LOD3? Or does the highest LOD not need to be named as such? It looks like i should be naming my lowest LOD paw1_LOD0 etc., so I will give that a shot today.

Edited September 13, 2019 by m0ld

[Cackle Amore]

On 9/12/2019 at 8:30 PM, m0ld said:

Right... thanks for clearing that up Arton! it also doesn't say what you would name a high LOD mesh. Would that be _LOD3? so, paw1_LOD3, paw2_LOD3 and paw3_LOD3? Or does the highest LOD not need to be named as such? It looks like i should be naming my lowest LOD paw1_LOD0 etc., so I will give that a shot today.

Well, the "high" is the main model itself. but ya, I think what ya wrote should be the way to do it with adding the _LOD2 at the end of the object names. Paw1, Paw1_LOD2, Paw1_LOD1 and so on.