Problems with hard edges and subd's
polycounter lvl 18
You guys really know your stuff, probably more about subd than the guys at subdivisonmodeling.com 
I'm having trouble with getting a simple intrusion displaying correctly. Original lowpoly:
In subd you can see distortion at the end of the intrusion (called pinching, right?):
I tried putting in a bunch of edges but that screwed up the corners quite badly, and beveling the corners only did so much, so I just used edge weights (using modo), and now I have this problem. Again, beveling the corner verts (this time with edge weights) doesn't help much either.
I'm stuck
I'm having trouble with getting a simple intrusion displaying correctly. Original lowpoly:
In subd you can see distortion at the end of the intrusion (called pinching, right?):
I tried putting in a bunch of edges but that screwed up the corners quite badly, and beveling the corners only did so much, so I just used edge weights (using modo), and now I have this problem. Again, beveling the corner verts (this time with edge weights) doesn't help much either.
I'm stuck
Replies
its just straight polygon modelling and then sub-d'd
i dont know the terminology in modo but in max i put a turbosmooth on my edit poly
I'm familiar with turbosmooth in max, so I'll try that when I get home. Thanks!
But... you know this could just be a bug in modo because I had almost the exact same topology before trying edge weights.
modo is great but sometimes.. ARRRRRR... but max is 20x more frustrating