I agree those are low poly issues and I'm not saying never use floaters, I use them, they are helpful. I use them for stuff like the round indent here, where it's just easier to stuff a floater in a box rather than try and figure out the geometry and what to do with the loops. The problem I think this example would run…
How do people deal with floating geometry when baking with xNormal? Baking normalmaps is no problem of course, but how do you solve the shadows behind the floaters when you bake AO or cavity? I usually try to stay away from floaters but the few times I've used them I've had to bake two sets of textures (one set with…
those floaty bits are from zremeshing a dynamesh with mangled geometry at the tips. Normally I solve this by Polygroup>Autogroup. Select the tree with Ctrl+Shift+LMB to hide all of the tiny mesh floaters. Ctrl+H to delete hidden. Now Geometry>Modify Topology>Close Holes. You can now smooth out some areas manually with the…
it usually is triggered by the 3dsmax renderer and not something that can be accessed manually. If you can't see it maybe it is because it is covered by another floater or window?