Dismembering Without Seams

JustColorado

I am working on a little project where I want to dismember the enemy characters.



More disturbing pictures here: http://www.hipsteraxe.com/dismembered-hipster/

I needed some extra faces for where the limbs can be severed. When I put the extra faces in the mesh ends up with seams. The surface topology is exactly the same but for some reason those inside faces cause seams.

Is there any way to avoid this on a dismembering mesh or should I just strategically place the seams on a part of the mesh where a seam won't look bad?

Eric Chadwick

Which 3d editing software are you using? You should be able to edit the vertex normals along those seams.

The vertex normals are creating shading seams, because the default behavior is to average the vertex normals across nearby geometry. You want to force the normals to match the neighboring body part instead.

http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/VertexNormal

SuperFranky

If you are using 3ds Max, there's a great free script on Scriptspot.com that does the stitching of vertex normals for you. I think it's called Vertex Stitcher or Normal Stitcher.

Eric Chadwick

Oooh, awesome. Added this to the wiki, thank you SuperFranky!

SuperFranky

Eric Chadwick wrote: »

Oooh, awesome. Added this to the wiki, thank you SuperFranky!

Heh, you're welcome Scriptspot is a great place ( the best ? ) to find 3ds Max scripts and plugins, most of them for free. I think it should have its place in Wiki.

Eric Chadwick

Good point. Added here, along with a couple other download databases.
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Tools#Plugins_and_Scripts

JustColorado

Thank you Eric! and superFranky