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lowpoly smoothing groups
Everytime I bake normal maps in xnormal I get extremely ugly results. I made this model to test out smoothing groups and perfect normal baking. In this image, my cylindrical bases will be divided like so: The cylindrical part will get a cylindrical map with one smoothing group on one UVW island. The top of the cylinder… -
Fixing Smoothing Groups?
So I'm using 3ds max and I've always had trouble with the normals looking wonky on my meshes when I bake out the normals from a high poly mesh. I know that the cause of it is from the smoothing groups in the low poly mesh. I usually set the entire mesh to 1 smoothing group or auto smooth, but it doesn't always work. I… -
3DSMax: Smoothing Error
Hi everyone, I'm relatively new to Max (coming from Maya), though I've used it for a few projects so far. Currently, I'm having a problem with smoothing/smoothing groups: I have an object with a rounded surface and the smoothing group for it is completely broken. I've tried assigning the faces new groups, multiple groups,… -
Blender. Lack of smooth groups + simple model = pain
Hello guys :) So. Dead simple model. We need a illusion of smooth radius chamfer (fillet) shading on the edges by modyfy vertex normals. In 3dsMax its easilly achieve by spreading smooth groups as i shown on picture. I.e. top polygon are simultaneous have 1 and 2 smooth group, and oposite side polygons have only one smooth… -
UV seams to smoothing groups?
Hey guys, just checking if there's a Maxscript that does simply this: redo your model's smoothing groups according to UV seams. I figure, since it's best to do your UV's without considering the smoothing (efficiency first), you'd normally go for a single smooth group. But if there are UV splits, might as well do a few hard… -
low poly smoothing problems
hi, i'm beginning in 3ds max, momentally i'm working on lowpoly character. i've modeled him and detached to a several parts for uvw mapping. after i've added smooth modifier, model looked something like this: as you can see, every detached part is smoothed separatly. i have also tried to assign every part to the one… -
Normal map and smoothing group problems
BIG EDIT: Okay, just ignore me.... I went and searched for an hour after posting this and found an identical probelm posted here: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=71536&highlight=normal+map+problem. Turns out I was doing things right, and I just needed to alter a couple things (Like I figured. Me making a… -
Smoothing groups are messed up!
Hey everyone, while working on Tims Kukri Tutorial, I recognzied that my smoothing groups (Hard Edges) are really messed up. I'm new to 3ds Max and have no idea how to fix this. I attached a picture of my hard edges and the ones of Tim's knife. Do you have any ideas, how I can fix this and keep up my smoothing groups? Do… -
Question regarding UV unwrapping and Smoothing Groups
Hi Just a quick question regarding UV uwrapping and Smoothing Groups: we were taught to add Smoothing Groups FIRST before UV unwrapping. Is it perfectly fine to do it backwards instead? Are there any negative downsides to doing that? This is just a personal preference for me, doing it backwards, but I find it easier as I… -
Maya Smoothing error
I'm sure this is just one of Maya's quirks that I haven't learned how to deal with yet, but whenever I try to Smooth a polygon mesh, it selects all the faces of the model, but doesn't smooth anything. At first this only happened when I had the "exponential" smooth setting on, but now the same things going with linear…
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