3ds Max, mesh splitet into many parts when importing

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Hey everyone!

I have encountered a really strange problem which i never have met before.
The mesh i’m having the issue with, looks fine in 3ds Max:

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But in Unreal Engine, it looks destroyed:

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I have never seen this before, so I tried some settings in 3ds Max:

Resetting Transform and scale under hierarchy.
Attaching everything together.
Resetting pivot.

I thought it might be something to do with the pivot and location, and so on. So that was what i have tried!

If anyone could help me, I would be very happy.

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Have you looked at this link yet? Importing Static Meshes in Unreal Engine | Unreal Engine 5.2 Documentation

Make sure you are importing a static mesh or an .fbx file.

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Yeah.
This is what i did:

  1. I clicked on file/the max button in the corner
  2. then i clicked on export/export selected
  3. chose a name and location
  4. then the fbx exporter came up. I included smoothing group, preserve edge orientation, triangulate, tangents and normals.
  5. clicked ok
  6. In Unreal Engine i clicked import.
    and this was my settings btw.

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  1. clicked import. And thats how i ended in this situation.

I have worked with 3ds Max in a long time now. So i don’t think i did anything wrong in the export tbh :confused:

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Okay so I have tried to export another project from 3ds Max, and the same thing is happening.

I even went as far, to reinstall 3ds max completely and tried to export again, but that didn’t work either.

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Okay i got it working now!
So yesterday i kinda gave up for that day, but next day (today) when I started my computer up again and tried to import again. It works!!! Weird…
But thanks for the help!

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