Problem with Maya/extruding

Daves

Hi everyone,

I´ve built a Vespa in Maya 2013. The technique used was extruding from a single Face from bottom to the top. But that leads (in my case) to the Problem of some hard/weird shadows. I don´t know if my technique sucks or if its a Problem with maya. If you know whats the problem please respond.

Kurt Russell Fan Club

Looks like you need to set your edges to hard/soft as required?

Daves

Ok thanks, you helped me a lot ! Normals->Soften Edge / Harden Edge. Maya did that randomly i think.

CheeseOnToast

It's not random. Most maya tools have an editable tolerance where they will automatically set an edge to be soft/hard depending on angle. You'll almost always need to hand edit them anyway though.