turn smoothing off, everything thats not smooth will not be smooth printed out work real scale, and think of material thickness rhino has tools for mass measuring and checking if it will stand or not
Oh wait... i was using auto smooth and I just gave it a different smoothing group and fixed it... but still trying to figure out why auto smoothing doesn't work.
Yeah it can be a problem if it's part of a larger object and you can't smooth before bending. From top to bottom, lowpoly deformed, deformed then smoothed, smoothed then deformed.
Yeah what you are doing seems like the best way. Make the simple geometry in maya and subdivide. But if you just use support edges rather than creasing, then you can export it to any program and the smoothing is going to work as expected. I do think creasing should hold from some programs to others, but you have to look…
Nice to try a bit of editing at vertex level. Between the two halves, one can see the seam that makes the red surface appear sharp. If you want to get rid of that and smooth the final result : - select your two halves. In the ribbon modifier, tap "make unique" : no more instance. - in the ribbon modifier, tap "combine" :…
Hell yeah, I hope Autodesk takes note and starts trying to just spread the love where it's needed between the two programs. I always said if Maya had smoothing group control like Max's, plus it's turbo smooth, and edit poly modifier it'd be insanely dangerous. But at the same time.. they're not trying to make one program…
if you have your smoothing groups set up properly on your low poly, you can check "preserve smoothing groups" in the turbo smooth modifier. That will keep your hardedges.
Is the front of that box sharing the same smoothing groups as the side? It looks like just a smoothing error to me. Split the smoothing groups at 90 degree angles as well as the UVs.
It's a gunblade based on the following concept art (used with permission): http://scottmichaelh.deviantart.com/favourites/#/d26vcy5 I like the idea of taking known items and redesigning them to look a bit unique so this one fit in well for me. Also I hate my concepting abilities so if I can find one the better off I'll be.…