I have a question

[erilaz]

Nup, it's pretty much using creases like you're doing. You can mess around with the smoothness controls in meshsmooth to get hard edges, but it's easier to control it with your own creases.

How are you doing them?

[3dsmax5]

You can do it with smoothing groups. Check the "separate by: smoothing groups" button in the meshsmooth modifier.

[xynaria]

In most instances, I'd also say using smoothing groups is far more prefereable than the 'chamfer edges' option. Take a while to get usable with though. Also you can use seperate by materials in the mesh smooth modifier. :)

[Rice ManX]

I didn't know about those two optionns (Chamfering and Smooth Groups) My method was to manually bunch vertices together so it would maintain a sharp edge when i smoothted it.
Thanx alot again guys :)

[megaflaizer]

yes, use the chamfer

using the crease weight in the meshsmooth controls is cool, but has a drawback: its a specific to max tool.

if you create sharp edges by using geometry [eg, chamfer] you'll be better off.

imagine that youre creating a model that shuld be able to go into any subdiv package and look great.

[Rice ManX]

Thank you all for your information, greatly appreciated :)

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