models causing max to crash

[carlangas]

Hi all,

 

I've been having problems recently with some models, the archmodels from evermotion to be more specific. some of the models make max crash. and im certain its those models because when i delete some of them I finally stop max from crashing. I normaly dont have crashing problems at all but this is irritating me. is there something I can do to fix the mesh and make the model usable?

 

im using max 6.

 

 

thanks,

[DennisHolland]

Maybe convert them to editable poly and/or mesh and do a rendertest or export it first as mesh and import them back to be sure you skip any tricky data in the model? I never heard of crashing evermotion models before....

[carlangas]

Thanks Dennis, I'll give that a try...

[stylez]

could it be that your scene is very complex? thus crashing max because of the size of the scene? if so then i would try xRefing the models into your scene, display them as Box (under object properties) so it doesnt overwhelm your scene with meshes and is easier to work with

[carlangas]

Hi Jordan.

 

Im working on 2 different scenes with archmodels, one of them was 12mb. it crashed when I merged some courtains. but thanks for the suggestion. would xrefing work better than freezing/hiding objects???