[Maya] soften edge artifacts

dlz

Hi,

Maybe this is a newbie question but i didn't find an answer.

I'm getting artifacts in some meshes, I usually dont pay attention to it since i can smooth the mesh increasing the geometry and get rid of them but now i have a limitation in the polycount of the scene and can't do it that way.
I tried unlocking normals, average normals, even i tried a script called "weighed normals" and some other options but i continue to getting these.

I think these meshes have enough geometry to don't show any artifacts.

Any solution without increasing the geometry?

dur23

Try unlocking your normals > then set to face > then smooth

That or else you might have extra verts on top of eachother. I always have the HUD on that shows verts selected, so i can see when i've overlapped them. 

dlz

@dur23 that didn't work thank you anyway.
I also check if there's vertex on top of another.

dur23

Whenever a mesh of mine is acting all weird in maya i export an OBJ with everything in the settings turned off. Then import into a fresh scene. 

Yerus

Does it look bad on render? If it doesn't then you don't need to revamp them,

icegodofhungary

Have you tried setting a specific smoothing angle rather than just hitting "soften edge"? Delete all history, highlight all verts and merge at 0.01 distance. Then hit "set to face" and then "harden/soften edges" at 45 or 60 degrees. Go full 90 if 60 is too low.

dlz

Thank you all!

In the end i simply deleted the edges and insert the edges another time and the artifacts didn't show again. By the way it's "soften all the edges and with uv made this time. Maybe it was something to do with uv, it was really strange that normal behaviour haha.