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1. Re: [3dsmax] UVW seams to Smoothing Groups?

   

   Reply by pasha_sevez · Apr 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   Here's a script "UV borders to hard edges". The algorithm is quite simple: 1) Select UV borders (used part of Renderhjs' script for Roadkill uwrapping) 2) Convert UV edges selection to EditPoly edges selection (Max is a real pain in the ass!) - my part of the script 3) Make smoothing groups in hard edges style (used script…

2. Re: [3dsmax] UVW seams to Smoothing Groups?

   

   Reply by M.Palko · Mar 2015 · Home› Technical Talk

   I had some problems with the script posted above, It seemed to give me some incorrect results on more complex models. I decided to have a go at it, so here's my take. Basically I build a list of all the UV islands using a UV modifier, then set the auto smooth threshold to 180 and run auto smooth on each island. I'll post…

3. Re: [3dsmax] UVW seams to Smoothing Groups?

   

   Reply by renderhjs · Mar 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   yep TexTools reads out the smoothing groups and create UV shells based on that - which is a great start to unwrap. The opposite should be possible as well, I will have a look at it later and see if I can wrap together a quick script that does it the other way around. In TexTools its the subscript…

4. Re: [3dsmax] UVW seams to Smoothing Groups?

   

   Reply by jackrabbit82 · Mar 2017 · Home› Technical Talk

   I know this an old thread, but does anyone know why in 3dsmax 2012 the function getSmoothGroups from Textool seems to be failing ? i've been trying to wrap my head around what might be causing Textool to ignore my SM Group and make a default one by angle instead? I wish i was still in 2010 only for this tool haha !