Dear meshers: WTF?

[aquilegia]

I have discovered something inexplicable and really irritating: Many of Melodie9's conversion meshes have an extra group called 'face' that's, well, a face. It does nothing and doesn't show up, but it adds 736 polygons nonetheless. I deleted it in a few meshes and tested and they showed up just fine, so I repeat: WTF?

I'm not even going to get into the unholy mess that is most Store hairstyles.

Expect mesh fixes to be forthcoming. >:[ This stuff really chaps my ass.

Comments

[charamei]

Oh, I remember those! On one of the occasions I tried (and failed) to recolour a hair, that face confused the crap out of me.

756 polygons... yow.

[russianspidercat]

That's a lot of unnecessary polys for something that I assume is copy/paste (copy/paste is a lot of work though :P).

[aquilegia]

Mesh conversions are a lot more work than copy/paste! It's probable the face mesh was in there for a size/alignment guideline, and I'd assume she forgot to remove it, but so far it's been in about ten meshes for hers I've checked, and for all ages she converted. O_o

[russianspidercat]

I stand corrected then, I really shouldn't be talking about things I know nothing about. This still puzzles me though.

[digitaldollies]

My, oh my. I do feel your pain. Thanks to whatever Deity we have you. Store Hairs are animal quite unto themselves.

*sits back and waits for the good stuff*

[(Anonymous)]

I always import a face-group when I do gender-conversions of hairs and it has happened that I've forgotten to delete it before saving. Of course I've always noticed it and never let it stay in the finished package. Easy mistake to make, I guess, but I can see why it's frustrating.
(This is Trapping, btw..)

[aquilegia]

Hi Trapping! :)

I import faces for alignment, too, and at first I thought Melodie9 had just forgotten to remove the face, no big deal. But it was in the child and toddler ages as well as the teen... and it's been in every mesh of hers I've checked so far except the very most recent, so at that point I was like, "How does a person keep missing something like that?"

It's easy to fix (Click on the GMDC, click on the Groups tab, click on the Face group, click Delete, commit, and save) at least!

[quinctia]

LOL, that reminds me of something similar I've never actually ranted about that I probably should: I have no idea what the deal is or how this happened, but all of the early Enayla pixie skins have hair textures in them for god knows what reason. They certainly didn't do anything.

[aquilegia]

Oh god, I remember those! I still can't figure out how on earth she managed to do that, other than that the hair textures looked like Peggy textures and we all know Peggy manages to do some inexplicable things.