3DS max TurboSmooth acting up... HELP!!

Chicken Dip · Jun 2012

Hi guys.

as the title says my turbo smooth is doing some weird things and i have NO idea why... Maybe these images may help understand more of what is actually happening.

Turbo Smooth On

Turbo Smooth Off

Please help... I got this model from a friend who wants me to work on it so i am unsure what he did to it... Is it possible to fix this error?

Thanks

JamesWild · Jun 2012

Looks like corrupt surface normals - I don't know exactly how the turbosmooth algorithm works but it looks like the smoothing is happening almost in the wrong direction.

Time for the good-old standby of exporting the mesh as a .obj with as little data as possible, and importing it again to clear 3DS Max state bugs and generated data corruption.

tyddynroger · Jun 2012

possibly some unwelded verts.

or try importing it into a new 3ds max scene as mentioned.

Chicken Dip · Jun 2012

Hey guys... thanks for the quick response... I exported it as .OBJ and re imported it and it works just fine... thanks

cptSwing · Jun 2012

you could probably also have tried a "edit normals" modifier, unify all normals, collapse to edit poly

Steppenwolf · Jun 2012

I had this happen to me recently. Turned out it was because parts of the model were unwrapped. Usualy i make the high poly first and then the low poly. In that case i wanted to update an older model with an hp normal bake so worked from an already finished low poly. Took me a while to figure out what was wrong. Easy fix just apply planar map in the uvw editor to the whole model.

3DS max TurboSmooth acting up... HELP!!

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