how to smooth out my model

[gringer]

I don't know much about Maya, but I think your problem is smoothing groups. That's what they're called in MAX anyhow. It's basically the interperetation of the surface across polygons.

I've tried to attach a pic of two spheres here, one with the smoothing groups all out of whack and the other smoothed properly. I'm not sure if the pic uploaded or not though.
Anyway, perhaps a Maya user could jump in and point you in the right direction?

cheers

[PlanetaryWolf]

Try messing with the normals, like "soft/hard" normals. I believe it's found in the "edit polygon" menu.

[GregOconn]

Hey Phedrek,

I've come across this problem in maya a few times before and have come up with different solutions to it every time. I would try playing with the normals as already suggested, but if you can is it possable to post a wireframe? Might be able to make more of it from there.

[MacManiax]

this is my checklist i go thorugh when things look like that

delete history
check normal direction
merge all vertices using default options
soften normals 180 degrees
conform normals
delete lamina faces
check for 5 sided faces
look for stray vertices left over from deleting edges without using the delete edge option

[gordon7up]

can we see the wire? maybe a clue there if you havent already sussed it out....

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