Meshsmooth Messup!

[whtnoise]

kinda hard to understand what you're talkin about, maybe post a couple before/after pics?

[robinb]

It's probably because a mesh made from splines won't be made of nice quad faces. Mesh smooth only really works on quads. You can improve the situation by cutting up your mesh into more or less quad faces (some triangles or 5 sided polys here and there are OK, so long as there's a quad between them) before you try and meshsmooth it.

[=HaZZard=]

yeh i thort of trying that, it just took a bit of time with it beeing quite a high quality model, i was just wondering if there was an easyer way. but thanks for the help. i'll give it a try.

thanks

=HaZZard=

* oh and i'll post some before/after pics if i get time *

[robinb]

Not that I know of. If you find a way let me know too. ;) I tend to do that sort of thing for curved shapes too.

It might be quicker to extrude the spline with a really low number of steps in the splines (set the interpolation low before doing it). You don't need that much detail if you're going to meshsmooth it after. It might also be quicker to convert to an editable mesh, then you can select all those hidden edges and make them visible, then convert to a poly object, rather than spending a long time with create edge in poly mode straight away.

[=HaZZard=]

Yeh that sounds like a plan i'll give it a try. i tryed adding in the detail and it worked ( kinda but i was rushing ) so i'll give your outher suggestions a try. thanks again for your help. and if i find a better way i'll let you know. thanks.

=HaZZard=

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