maya normal weirdness

Hito

This might be something simple but I'm buggered about figuring what it is...

left image is before, how I want it to look; the right is after what I did.


What happened is I flipped a few triangulations... the faces' normals are changed as a result. so I select the mesh; and averaged the normals. figuring that'll blend the faces where I flipped the triangulations into the rest of the mesh. But I get this weird thing where the lighting looks flipped too.

What can I do to get it back to looking the way it was before and not have the few faces looking like they're patched onto the mesh?

bugo

I am sorry, lemme get this straight, your problem is on the triangulation or into the vertex normals?

Steve Schulze

If Maya refuses to do what you want with normals then
Normals->Unlock normals will often fix it.
In general, use the soften/harden edge tool to blend in new polys.

MoP

Doing an Average Normals operation on a whole mesh (or significant portion of the mesh) will not look good.
Unlock Normals is generally what you want.

ivars

Also, if you've done any edits to your mesh after the skin was attached, remember to do a "delete non-deformer history".

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