maya specific smooth problem

pachermann

Hi i tried to smooth my poly modell in maya.
i get weird mesh results and of coarse my bake fails then.

what i did:

i used Smooth Poly *Options

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Settings:
exponentinally
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Exponentional Controls:
divisions 2
Continuity: 1
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Map Borders: //to be honest i don't know what this option does that is why its off
do not smooth
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preserve:
hard edges //i only understand one of the options also. its the obvios hard edges
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Well my problem comes with; Continuity: 1
But if i set 0: Continuity: 0 ...my modell gets really edgy and all my soft edges are beeing ignored.

any suggestions what i can do to smooth nicely? :poly141:
cheers

the settings


The error that comes with Continuity: 1


The lowpoly base i smoothed

Bartalon

I often see that happen when there is a rogue vertex hanging out on an edge somewhere. Check your mesh for ngons.

Bartalon

Oh, and you also want to uncheck all options under the Preserve section. You have Preserve Hard Edges on, so any edge normals that aren't soft will stay in place.

pachermann

Hi Bartalon, thanks for the Hints.
The Mesh was twisted because i had not enough loops where my Hard edges are.
Also the preserve: hard edges; was definitely not was i though so i turned it off.
The Continuity: 1 Parameter is a bit experimental and i ended up with like .456 and it worked very well then.
My Map Bake is now perfect

thx!