model does not recieve correct lighting

snake85027

Im using 3dsmax 11. I have a model that is not recieving correct lighting.its just black. I tried reseting xform and collapsing but it does not work. Im in smooth and highlights view.
I threw a light in there and still no change. any ideas?

Sean VanGorder

Are your normals flipped?

snake85027

well i figured it out, had way to many faces. so I welded the model. But now the faces are not smooth, some triangles are partly shaded and some are flat. I tried to smooth the entire model but it doesnt change.

snake85027

well i did the reset xform and turned on backculling to see if it was inverted..i then grabed the faces and flipped them.

snake85027

any way to reset the normals for POLYGON SMOOTHING GROUPS?

snake85027

is there a SET TO FACE in 3ds max?

snake85027

I guess some of my edges were flipped or turned and I hit Msmooth in editable polygon mode and it did a face reset and all my normals were faced correctly. Not sure why this worked but glad it did.

sprunghunt

snake85027 wrote: »

any way to reset the normals for POLYGON SMOOTHING GROUPS?

changing all the smoothing groups to '1' basically should reset them. But you can also use the edit normal modifier (see below)

snake85027 wrote: »

is there a SET TO FACE in 3ds max?

try the edit normals modifier