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1. 3ds Max: Editting Vertex Normals Precisely

   

   Topic by Nightingale · Jan 2015 · Home› Technical Talk

   Hi guys, I'm working on a series of seamless modular trench staticmeshes. I want to change the vertex normals on the very edge of the green object (highlighted in the picture) so that they perfectly match the v-normals on the corresponding edge of the red object. The objective is to eliminate any lighting seams that would…

2. Re: 3ds Max: Editting Vertex Normals Precisely

   

   Reply by Eric Chadwick · Jan 2015 · Home› Technical Talk

   I did this a few years ago for a modular trench-based game. I made instance-copies of all the sections, overlaid them, added an Edit Normals modifier to all of them, marquee-selected each vertex, Average button. Repeat for each vert along the seam. This ensures every vertex along the shared seam, for every model, has the…