Problem with instanced geometry

So, I am working on an H2V map and I'm trying to light it with these instanced geometry light fixtures I modeled. So far they have worked fine, but after adding a new type of light fixture this is what happened:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ible/00021.jpg

It should be like this (3ds max render):

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ible/light.jpg

As you can see it seems to be radomly welding verticies together. To give some kind of scale, the post that intersects the ground is 1 unit x by 1 unit. There are roughly 60 of those in the map, and they cast light fine, but I'm hoping they can look more pretty ingame. Help?

Try the "Reset Xform" button on the last tab on the right. Make sure your object is selected before doing this.

Reexport, and check.

Ok, I reset the xform and exported, I got this in tool when I tried to compile:

"scenarios/multi/glass_horizons/glass_horizons is larger than 20 meg, which exceeded the engine limitations"

So, I guess I have to much instanced geometry in the map. What does reseting the xform do?

Hmm, i'm on ~61Mb with my map now but i use scenery instead of inst.geom. hoping i can make collision geometry one day for it... or simply release it without scenery-CGs :P

Well I deleted all the xform tabs on each instaced geometry, and the map will compile now, but the whole deformation of the models is back again....

I had the same thing happen. Make a box, convert it to mesh, then attach to instance geometry object to the box. Rename the box to your instance geometry name, and relink to frame if it removes the link.