Strange problem with a model: help needed

[Monkwarrior]

Hi, this is my problem when I tried to include a new hoplite model for the Greek faction:


As you can see, there is some kind of "beam" or "reflection" in the model.
It seemed to me that this reflection came from the shield, and next to this unit you have the same model without shield. No aparent problem.
However, I imported a shield from another (correct) model, but the problem appeared again.

Any idea about the origin of this problem?
How can I solve it?

[Bwian]

Looks to me like you have a rogue vertex that is not properly assigned to the skin modifier. It may very well not be coming from the shield...but from the arm behind it. The shield model has no skin modifer, and is basically inert.

I would re-import the model into Max, and thoroughly check the skin modifier.

If all seems OK, and it still does this, remove the skin modifier, make sure you have no duplicated vertices, and then re-do the skin modifier. This ought to cure the problem.

[Myrddraal]

I think thats probably right, but still thats one cool and wierd looking error you have...

[snevets]

It looks to me as though you have a part of the body thats weighted to the arm.

[Myrddraal]

It looks to me as though you have a part of the body thats weighted to the arm.

But it looks like the vertex always heads towards the top left of the screen, if it was a body vertex weighted to the arm the different unit's vertexes would go to different places.

[Monkwarrior]

Sadly, I was unable to find the problem.

If any expert modeller was so kind to help me, I would be very grateful.
In such case, PM me with an e-mail address and I will send you the cas and the tga.dds texture files.