(Solved) Shifted Cylinder + Non-planar Quad

bitinn

Hi,

I was creating a cylinder with a shifted top cap. But then realise doing so made the chamfer on bottom became non-planar.

Is this how people usually model a shifted cylinder (say, for a table leg)? Is non-planar in this case a problem?

.Wiki

If i would have to think the whole day about non-planar polygons i would quit my job. So don´t overdo it. If it looks fine its fine. You´re not doing cad work that needs to be 100% precise.

bitinn

.Wiki said:

If i would have to think the whole day about non-planar polygons i would quit my job. So don´t overdo it. If it looks fine its fine. You´re not doing cad work that needs to be 100% precise.

True. Normally I wouldn't worry, but then I look at the shading, it looks wrong:

My bottom cap quad should be on the same plane, why does the non-planar quad on chamfer affect the cap?

bitinn

Argh, normals! Of course!

kwyjibo

just manually set all the normals on the cap to face down. Problem solved no?

bitinn

kwyjibo said:

just manually set all the normals on the cap to face down. Problem solved no?

Yeah. I have finally met this problem enough times to realise it on my own.