3ds Max - Help?: smooth surface without mesh smooth

Vendetti

Hey there, i dont know whether this is the right forum for my question to ask

ive been searching for hours now but its hard to find the solution to a problem you cant define.

sooo:

ive been working on a face model recently and my problem shows both in the viewport and in the rendered images. ive applied some textures but still the surface of my mesh looks crooked.

ive tried some other render methods and the viewport shader with the same frustrating outcome >_>

heres the img, maybe some of you can help me?

http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/4117/meshproblem.jpg

GeeDave

You need to apply a smoothing group/s

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Which you can find either via the "smooth" modifier, or in face/element mode of edit poly it will be in the main rollout.

FractaL

Convert to editable poly, select all by poly or element, go to the smoothing groups section of editable poly, clear all, and autosmooth, or smooth all with 1 channel.

Vendetti

wow, thank you so much, it worked

MortalMechanica

It might also help to set you degree settings if you have curved objects in your scene. I believe it defaults at 45* but if you set it lower, the smoothing group will seem to "wrap around" some objects at that angle or less.

It essentially controls what kind of edge will stop the smooth from progressing to the next face.

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