Scene Gone Crazy

[Morne]

Hide all Proxies (or delete them)
Hide Forest Pro objects (or delete them)
Ctrl +A
Convert all to Mesh
then Convert all to Poly
then Reset XForm to everything
Collapse to Poly
What do you get?

[glorybound]

I merged one-by-one and it happens when I merge things called 'mesh'. In the 'mesh' is Evermotion things, and things from the original SU model. So, it's Evermotion or SU, however the other project didn't start in SU. So, it seems to me it is Evermotion. Now, Evermotion used to cause my VFB to freak, which was fixed in V-Ray 3, or that was my understanding.

[glorybound]

Even stranger, the Evermotion stuff isn't even a 'mesh' element. However, when I merge the 'mesh' stuff, the evermotion stuff is still there in shaded mode.

[Vizioen]

This is starting to sound very confusing. Attach all objects to one poly with quickattach, and merge that?

[glorybound]

Merged everything but the Evermotion and its still broken. I am trying to merge everything but the SU stuff; I'll report back.

[glorybound]

Everything but SU... still broken

[dlparisi]

Bobby-I took a quick look at the scene and noticed even after deleting everything (via Ctrl A) you still have a few particle flows in the particle view as well as a lot of old animation layers (visible in a dope sheet) sticking around. Even after I cleared all of those out I still had the phantom geometry however so I'm not sure they are the problem. Even after deleting that the file size is still around 4 mb so there's still something hanging around. Wish I could be more help.

[glorybound]

Everything but SU or Evermotion and still broken.

[glorybound]

Thanks for looking. I did notice the particle flows and I deleted all the keys, but like you, the problem still exists.

Bobby-I took a quick look at the scene and noticed even after deleting everything (via Ctrl A) you still have a few particle flows in the particle view as well as a lot of old animation layers (visible in a dope sheet) sticking around. Even after I cleared all of those out I still had the phantom geometry however so I'm not sure they are the problem. Even after deleting that the file size is still around 4 mb so there's still something hanging around. Wish I could be more help.

[glorybound]

How do you delete things in the 'dope sheet'? I was using a script to delete all animation keys, but obviously it's not deleting them all, or something.

[dlparisi]

I used this:

macroScript Cleanup category:"3dwannab" buttontext:"Cleanup" tooltip:"Clean Motion Clips + Layer Controls resulting in smaller file sizes"
(
if querybox "Clean Motion Clips + Layer Controls by 3dwannab (◣_◢)\n\nAre you sure ?" title:"Cleanup by 3dwannab (◣_◢)" beep:true
	then
		(
		t=trackviewnodes
		n=t[#Max_MotionClip_Manager]
		if n!=undefined then deleteTrackViewController t n.controller
		gc()
		t=trackviewnodes
		n=t[#Anim_Layer_Control_Manager]
		if n!=undefined then deleteTrackViewController t n.controller
		gc()
		messagebox "Cleanup complete of:\nMax_MotionClip_Manager + Anim_Layer_Control_Manager nodes\n\nGoodbye...(◣_◢)" title:"Cleanup by 3dwannab (◣_◢)"  beep:true
	)
	else
	(
		-- DO NOTHING
	)
)

[glorybound]

I get an error

-- Syntax error: at ), expected <factor>
-- In line: )

[glorybound]

Okay, it worked. I initially cut/pasted into the listener. The script worked, but it didn't solve anything.

[glorybound]

nope, still broken

This is starting to sound very confusing. Attach all objects to one poly with quickattach, and merge that?

[YoyoBoy]

Bobby, I opened the scene you posted, and it works fine for me (Max 2015 SP3, GeForce 780M). I got warnings that I didn't have PSD Manager or the bitmaps, of course. First try setting the Max display to show object colors only, see if that has any effect. If not, maybe you should strip all materials out and see if it's related to that somehow.