Maya 2009Unlimited "Smoothing too smooth"

n88tr

When I smooth faces to make say a rectangle smoother, it goes from 90* degrees hard edges to like sphere smooth and looks horrible, it oversmooths to the extreme. I was wondering if there was an option to control how much it smooths so I could just round out the corners a bit??

Thank you for reading my thread.

EarthQuake

You'll need more supporting geometry(or a normal map) to just smooth the corners.

pixeldamage

Oops ignore what I said here

MoP

Um, pixeldamage, the thread title says Maya 2009... thanks for the effort though

Ghostscape

You're going to want to bevel your edges or insert new edgeloops before you try smoothing.

r4ptur3

smoothing groups work in 2009 as well -- they also create far less geometry. You can find the menu under:

Edit Mesh --> Crease tool

There are a few drawbacks to this function -- when adding loops to your object the tool tends to forget what edges are smoothed and which are not. It also has some problems interpolating new cuts in an object. Even tho it creates cleaner geo and less of it I would steer away from this tool unless you are absolutely sure you do not need to cut your objects any further.

kodde

Isn't he referring to Mesh > Smooth (the subdivide-average-vertices-kind-of-tool)?

In this case it's the Continuity value you wanna play around with to tweak how much you want it to "smooth" the 90 degree angle you are speaking of. You can alter this after applying the smooth given that you have construction history enabled. Just click the Smooth history node in the channel box (?), right below where you find all the translate, rotate, scale, etc. values.

n88tr

Thanks, kodde, that's what I was looking for.

I'll go test it out and get back to you guys. Thank you!!!