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mark_battista
03-30-2003, 01:04 PM
hi, i'm tryna model low poly but a few things are puzzling me. Im sure I never used to get this problem, I keep getting like faceted faces and its driving me crazy. Just wondering if anybody can help. Ive extruded from a cylinder, that you can see was smooth to begin with, the extrusion has the same number of segments etc but it isnt smooth. Why ever not?

help would be much appreciated
thx
regards Mark Battista
milosp
03-30-2003, 01:20 PM
Try adding smoith modifier on top of the stack
autosmooth = on
180
...maybe
mark_battista
03-30-2003, 02:04 PM
works nicely that mate, cheers. Set it to 80 180 was too high
thx for your help
regards
mark battista
mouj
03-30-2003, 02:59 PM
Howdy !

Not quite sure but to me it looks like a smoothing groups issue ?
Looks like your base cylinder has a smoothing group applied while the extruded part for some reason have none ?

mouj
mark_battista
03-30-2003, 03:02 PM
aye thats what i thought but it doesn't. Smooth modifier fixes the problem but max seems to be doing this with every model i make at the moment. Hmmmm wonder if I've hit a key somewhere by accident? whilst smoothmod is a short term fix i need a long term one.
regards
mark
cdinic
03-30-2003, 03:26 PM
the cylander ocbject has specific smoothing groups pre defined. ass you add geometry it has no way of knowing where to lay edges and where to smooth.

in face mode of either edit poly or edit mesh you can go to the very bottom of the menu and select any face and see in the table what smoothing group its in.

good luck!
-Chris
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