model does not recieve correct lighting

snake85027 · Sep 2011

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 · Sep 2011

Are your normals flipped?

snake85027 · Sep 2011

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 · Sep 2011

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 · Sep 2011

any way to reset the normals for POLYGON SMOOTHING GROUPS?

snake85027 · Sep 2011

is there a SET TO FACE in 3ds max?

snake85027 · Sep 2011

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 · Sep 2011

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

model does not recieve correct lighting

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