Wanted to share something I discovered for Mod Makers

I was seeing where meshes where missing polygons when there was no visible reason it should be. Today I discovered what was causing this. If you use the Jbeam exporter and you have already done the Nodes/Beam connector in edit mode(in blender), you can no longer move any vertices or do any scaling of the mesh once those beams are re-enforced. It invalidates them creating voids or pockets that will eat the polys of the mesh. I discovered this making a duplicate of the left upper arm jbeam and using it for the right side. Since it was not mirrored I manually moved the vertices to make the box fit. I noticed those right shoulder polys where missing and realized this was causing the problem. I would say save that step for the very last before exporting your jbeams, or connect them later in the node editor.
I also found out using the jbeam plug in for blender if you do use the nodes/beam connector tool, you have to exit edit mode and go back to object mode if you plan on doing any more with that tool. say you are re-enforcing several different vertices but not all of them. Selectively connecting a few at a time. That is fine, but after each connection Tab to object mode then back to edit mode again or it will crash. I take the extra step to unselect the mesh also. You could think of it like this. As the node beams connector in edit mode is a tool that has to be recharged after each use. not charging it by tabbing out of edit mode causes it to explode (crash blender)

 

Thanks, yeah I found out mirroring will flip the normals making the polys inside out. Once in the jbeam editor of course they being red I just went back and edited the normals to flip them back and re-exported. Then only had to transfer over the triangles.