Faceted mesh even WITH turbosmooth?!

C86G

Hello.

Anybody encountered the following:

I have a mesh in Max 2010 and exported it. Opening in 2013 (on another machine) shows the mesh faceted, what´s right BUT its even faceted WITH a turbosmooth.
Changinf smothing groups doesn´t change a thing. Exporting the mesh from Zbrush to 2013 shows the same faceted mesh.

What could this be? It´s ahumanoid character that needs to be smoothed.

Obscura

export the mesh without turbo smooth, import it, and add turbo smooth again

C86G

It´s what I did.

I don´t know, Ive im- and exported all kinds of meshes and from Max 9 to 2010 and Zbrush and NEVER had this problem. I don´t use 2013. The mesh is for a friend who uses 2013 and he gets that problem with a smooth.

Obscura

try to weld vertexes

Joopson

Can you post pictures?

Obscura

or add mesh smooth, find the crease options, select all vertexes, and type 0 to crease

C86G

Naaah, of course the verts are welded. Turbosmooting here on my machine with 2010 works great. Everything works fine here but not on my friend´s 2013.

If you check the links in my sig, you can see that I normaly can handle meshes ; )

Tekoppar

The opposite happens for me all the time, my mesh gets smoothed and I can't change the smoothing. Maybe the fix for that works for the faceted one. It's simply adding a edit poly stack and then collapsing it/converting to edit poly.

C86G

I don´t think that helps. Applying smooting groups works and you can see the separated smothed shading. Bringing all polys into one smoothing groups works fine, but adding a turbosmooth causes the mesh to look faceted (though not exactly like the unsmoothed low poly).

Too bad I can´r provide a screenshot, but you get the idea.

Anyway, I received an email saying it works now. Basically, I edited the new mesh the exact same way than before but the smoothing looks right now. When I first saw this, I instantly said it must be a 2013 bug and NOT having this issue now makes me think that even more.

poopipe

its maya emulation mode (:p) its got confused about vertex normals in the mesh and you need to reset everything at a basic level.

turn to poly, collapse, add edit normal modifier and average everything, collapse again...

doing something to that effect will sort it - you might need to do it in a different order or convert to mesh etc. but you basically want to wipe out any stored information beyond the very basics

Psyk0

STL check modifier usually takes care of weird problems, give that a shot.

kolayamit

Psyk0 said:

STL check modifier usually takes care of weird problems, give that a shot.

Thank you very much!