Galactic civilisations 3 export problem

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It appears i have a problem exporting spaceships in that the only thing it will export to any 3d modelling software i seem to use is the central piece such as the hull box you can use which is imported as a cube. Now the main thing that confuses me about this is that i have one spaceship design that exported successfully and yet when i then went back in and used that same model the new exported version also doesn't export properly. So do i need to put anything into the spaceship design for it to function properly because i only used 3 parts for the one that worked and then used the same number in others and that didn't work. I then thought it was the equip pieces such as an in game usable engine piece but that wasn't it either. This export problem also seems to apply to completely untouched spaceship designs as the Stardock made designs also won't export successfully.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

i am getting this problem too, first of all only saved a 3k file then for a while it exported 3d files properly and I managed to export 6 ships now whatever I try it will only save out 3k files, just out of intrest, has it been since the last big windows upate (with 3d print etc) for you too or is your game also installed on drive D while exports still go to exports folder on drive c ?

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

It is installed in the user folder and i only use drive C to my knowledge. If it helps it is the steam version as for any big update i only started trying to export several weeks ago so i am unsure. As for file size the first and only one to work appears to be 16kb, and all the others since have been 2-3.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I'm sure it doesn't need confirmation but any export I do, no matter how I try, no matter what I use to open the OBJ file (3K file size) is a cube. So technically I can export only the most basic Borg cube; which is not all that helpful.  

Reply #4 from Stardock.net Forums Top

yea 3k files is all I get too, they are nothing but a tiny cube, when it did export the files were several mb although the windows 10 3d programs would occasionally say there was an error but would still load

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

strange things, some days exporting works most days though only get the 3k cube, tried making observations to any differences in other programs running etc but so far no pattern 

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I am also having this issue on both the GOG and Steam versions of the game.  This affects all models, stock and user generated, and has not self-corrected even temporarily as it has for some others experiencing this bug.  The last time I exported a ship model successfully was in late 2016.