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KidderD

07-24-2002, 07:44 PM

I'm trying to subd this.. The first attached image is poly cleanup selection for non-manifold geometry.. I can't figure out why it selects these vertices... after cleanup (following image) i get all these border edges.. and even after manually trying to merge edge .. .doesn't get all of them... then i tryed to manually go in and merge all vertices... it does get rid of the border edges.. but then when i go to sudb it states that there is nm geometry. and of course when i go to cleanup again.. i get the same thing as image 2. Any suggestions, other than lightening up my model, i know its huge.. that's the next thing. thanks for your time.

iC4

07-24-2002, 09:43 PM

I don't see an image

KidderD

07-25-2002, 12:56 AM

i've emailed to see why it doesn't show up... it's probably because it's my first image or something... I hope to get it, although in this time i have found a solution, but i do have other questions thanks again.

KidderD

07-25-2002, 07:06 PM

So what is going on? Why can't I post a 40kb image of my problem? Can anyone help me? Should I just be more patient with contacting Highend staff? Of course I should be, but is there something I'm missing... I'm just trying to attach a small image to explain my problem. It's almost impossible to explain without it.

KidderD

07-25-2002, 10:15 PM

image1

-wT-

07-26-2002, 06:32 AM

I'd say you should make sure your normals are pointing all in the right direction

Neil

07-26-2002, 01:18 PM

How do you do that?

-wT-

07-26-2002, 01:44 PM

First, to show the normals, go to Display -> Polygon components -> Normals, to actually see the normals, then, if you can clearly see that some of the normals are pointing to the wrong direction, select the whole mesh, then go to Edit polygons -> Normals -> Conform and all is fine again! Yay!

iC4

07-26-2002, 02:16 PM

now that are good news :thumbsup:

don't care that it's a beta, free things are always good :)

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