Instant Mesh Weird Problem...
polycounter lvl 9
Hello
When i use instant mesh to auto retopologize any mesh (to around lets say 10 000 quad polygons), export it to obj format and try to import it to 3ds max. It doesnt have any smoothing groups (the faces are not smoothed at all). The problem is when i try to add the smoothing under "Polygon: smoothing groups" it doesnt help either... The model looks terrible because of this. I tried reseting xform etc. didnt halp. I tried it in several version of 3ds max (2012,2015,2017 even i think) and all meshes from instant mesh program seem to have this problem. The only 3ds max that works ok (smoothing groups) with meshes exported from instant meshes is 3ds max 2009 which i cannot use periodically...
What it this weird problems?
See picture:
On left is version imported and smoothed in 3ds max (by smoothing i mean only smoothing groups, NO turbsmooth modifier or subdivision in general, just smoothing groups, on right you see version imported to 3ds max 2012 even after smoothing attempt... it doesnt work)
https://s11.postimg.org/ogylrfd5f/Unsmoothed_Mesh.jpg
WTF is this... never happened to me before. I noticed it some weeks ago but hoped it will resolve itself somehow... it didnt)... whats the problem?
When i use instant mesh to auto retopologize any mesh (to around lets say 10 000 quad polygons), export it to obj format and try to import it to 3ds max. It doesnt have any smoothing groups (the faces are not smoothed at all). The problem is when i try to add the smoothing under "Polygon: smoothing groups" it doesnt help either... The model looks terrible because of this. I tried reseting xform etc. didnt halp. I tried it in several version of 3ds max (2012,2015,2017 even i think) and all meshes from instant mesh program seem to have this problem. The only 3ds max that works ok (smoothing groups) with meshes exported from instant meshes is 3ds max 2009 which i cannot use periodically...
What it this weird problems?
See picture:
On left is version imported and smoothed in 3ds max (by smoothing i mean only smoothing groups, NO turbsmooth modifier or subdivision in general, just smoothing groups, on right you see version imported to 3ds max 2012 even after smoothing attempt... it doesnt work)
https://s11.postimg.org/ogylrfd5f/Unsmoothed_Mesh.jpg
WTF is this... never happened to me before. I noticed it some weeks ago but hoped it will resolve itself somehow... it didnt)... whats the problem?
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Yep thank you... helped, quick and easy, thanks :-)! Didnt even know that the edit normals modifier existed :-), never used it before.
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