3ds Max Low Poly Shading

Anthricus

GOLEM MODEL:

Not sure how to sort this shading error, i want it to stop splitting the polygon and shade it as a face rather than the triangles, or will i have to change the topology to remove this error?
its currently only about 500 tris


Could be me being stupid but any help is appreciated

its more tha rm that the chest as the chest shades reasonably well
Thanks!

Justin Meisse

Look into smoothing groups - a good base to start out with is select all the faces and click auto smooth in the Polygon:smoothing groups section of the command panel, experiment with different angles. You can also select individual faces and manually assign them to a smoothing group. The border between two different smoothing groups will result in a hard edge

Anthricus

il have a play around tomorrow but when these images where rendered out all smoothing groups where removed ( the problem was there before but i will have a try thanks very much

Eric Chadwick

Oh, I think you mean you want each polygon to be flat, but not each triangle? I don't have Max in front of me, but is this an Editable Poly model?

Anthricus

yeah its an editable poly at the moment

Anthricus

did a quick play with smoothing groups and it seems to have totally sorted my problems just need to change the topology around the mouth a bit so it doesnt get the wierd shading underneath the mouth :P