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lions

01-20-2003, 10:50 AM

Hi there,I have a huge scene with 100 elements,it's a room.Every element in the room is polygonal,and of course,every item has its own smooth.Now comes my question:
Is there a way to easily manage the smooth of all the objects?
I'd like to have a button to turn all smooth off and all on,dpending on what I'm doing.Let's say that I work with all objets zero smoothed and when I want to render,I just push the "all smoth" button and every object recovers its smooth.
Is there a way to do it?
thanks.

anthonymcgrath

01-20-2003, 12:04 PM

I'd create a quick selection set with all the poly objects you want to apply the 'smooth' to. then you can use this to quickly select all the objects you want to change the smooth value on. do this by simply opening the polySmoothFace option in your inputs menu to the right and changing the number. they should all be updated automatically.

hope this helps or at least speedys things up!

ant
newc
uk

NeonGuy

01-20-2003, 01:35 PM

you can also make an expression for this. also if you do so, you can make any number of presets with this smoothing expressions.
for example:
if the custom attr value is 0, set all smoothing off
if it's 1, do some smoothing
on 2, do full smoothing for render.

that's it

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