Max 2012 averaged normals planar map

NautalusX

The max 2012 planar map. When I hit align to normal it is not aligning the planar map to the polygons normals I have selected! :mad: Like in previous versions of max where it worked perfectly with 'averaged normals'



I tried resetting the transforms through the hiearchy tab of all my objects. I tried resetting pivot points, aligning to object, aligning to world. still don't work.

Eric Chadwick

That's weird. Works for me. What does your modifier stack look like? Does it work for you if you reset Max and do it on a Teapot primitive?

NautalusX

I tried it on a teapot and it worked!
I tried merging the objects into a new scene but problem persists. So it is somthing weird with my model itself. I happened to put a edit normals on it and the normals look very strange... how do i fix the normals ?



my stack is clean, its collapsed down to edit poly.

Eric Chadwick

http://download.autodesk.com/us/3dsmax/2012help/files/GUID-82722323-100B-4711-A01D-8A87EB53DD9-406.htm

Add an Edit Normals modifier. Select all the normals. Press the Reset button. Collapse the stack.

NautalusX

Sorry I forgot to mention that I tried resetting them that way but they were stuck. The way I fixed it was export/reimport using .obj and I didn't export the normals. So itd recalcute them i'd hope. And it worked!

Ace-Angel

Ah yes, the infamous 'mesh lock' that Max 2012+ brought in.

Yep, usually a export/import a la OBJ will do the trick, you could also 'clone' the mesh and it should fix it to, as long as you delete the original from the scene, although it doesn't always work.