Is there a way similar to Maya or XSI, get a smooth mesh preview in Max 2009/2010, rather than just applying a turbo smooth modifier? In Maya you can press 1/2/3/4 to increase subdivision/smoothing, in XSI you can press +/- to preview as well. Is there a way to get this functionality in Max?
First i want to say sorry if this is on a wrong board i'm new so if it is just tell me and i'll be glad to change it. But back to the original question, i'm still learning maya so i'm not an expert by all means on it, and when you click 3 to smooth it i thought that was all you had to do for smoothing but i recently came…
I think every modeling program can make smoothing groups. "hard edges" are the lack of smoothing groups or when two or more different smoothing groups are next to each other.There is a hard edge.So when you dont have any smoothing group on your model, its hard edged.And when your model have more than one smoothing group,…
do you know what smoothing groups are? they determine which polys on your model are smooth shaded and which have harsh edges. If you are using max, the smoothing groups panel is at the bottom of edit poly/mesh, and by selecting polys and clicking a smoothing goup number, all of them in the same group will be smoothed.…