Modo 10 game tools / Smoothing Groups

TCarneiro

So I' m testing the new modo game driven tools.
Everything works fine, except the smoothing groups tools..
I'm posting it here on the hopes someone had the same bug/problem that I'm having and might be able to help me figure out what to do.

Basically every time I try to create a smoothing group it affects the entire mesh instead of the selection. When I try to work on the selection it just creates a hard edge right in the middle of it.
There's no overlapping uvs..there's no reason (apparently)  for it to be behaving like this.

CharacterCarl

One of the faces you've selected in the upper picture appears in a different color. I don't have MODO in front of me right now but can you check that:

1. there are no flipped normals
2. no split edges (use merge-tool and increase merge radius)
3. no multiple faces ontop of each other?

Are you using Seneca's MODO scripts? He created a very handy "Cleanup" script which could possibly help in this case.

TCarneiro

DerRazputin said:

One of the faces you've selected in the upper picture appears in a different color. I don't have MODO in front of me right now but can you check that:

1. there are no flipped normals
2. no split edges (use merge-tool and increase merge radius)
3. no multiple faces ontop of each other?

Are you using Seneca's MODO scripts? He created a very handy "Cleanup" script which could possibly help in this case.

1) No flipped normals =(
2) Already did..I even deleted the edge and cut a new one.
3) Not at all =(

Gaurav Mathur

I'm wary of using third-party scripts that haven't been maintained for years.  How is Seneca's Mesh Cleanup script different than what comes built-in with MODO's Geometry > Mesh Cleanup?  Does anyone have a current version more recent than the script posted here?
http://community.thefoundry.co.uk/discussion/topic.aspx?f=32&t=50293 

TCarneiro

Guys, turn out the problem was the user not the tool!
I didn't knew but the tool was created in a way that it needs you to select the edges on the loop to be able to drive the smoothing groups. Meaning in 1 quad I would have to select the 4 edges.
Yeah..that's a feature !

So basically we just need to select the edges.

@gauravcm
yeah I clean the scripts/plugins/add-ons on every new installation.
I never used the Seneca's mesh cleanup tho!