Material changes from Wings to Maya

[VladD]

(btw I was typing from a phone before, hence the stern tone, sorry)

Well, when I import OBJ files into maya, exported from Wings, I get normals reflecting exactly the hard and soft edges that I had set in Wings without issues. BUT, yes, it is a pain in the xxxs that Maya automatically locks normals when importing OBJ, and that unlocking the normals destroy our patiently crafted set of hard/soft edges. Wings exporter is not at fault here, it's one annoying "feature" of importing any obj, from any software, into maya.

Possible work-around:

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2. You can try this oldish python script:http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/script/lockednormals-to-hard-soft-edge
I don't know if it works (or can be made to work) for more recent version of Maya, if you find out I'd be interested by the results . Anyway, this script will read the locked normals information and convert them into editable soft and hard edges again. That way you can edit your object without losing your work.