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tinitus
10-15-2009, 01:36 PM
hej!
I ve got a fully rigged character and everything is rendering fine. but when I try to create a subdivision approcimation node the character isnt rendering at all.
there is no error message.
where the character should be is just nothing.blank..
anyone any suggestions?

thx
djx
10-15-2009, 02:22 PM
Sometimes non-manifold surfaces cause problems for subdivision approximations. Usually you can find an error in the log. The subdivision proxy can be more forgiving.

-- David
fahr
10-16-2009, 05:29 PM
Subdivision... Proxy?

What the heck is that?? :)

i've only ever known about subdivision approximation nodes. Whats a sub proxy?

Edit: oh wait, im an idiot. "3" on the keyboard. Here i was hoping for some awesome new method of working with subdivisions i didnt know about. :)
djx
10-16-2009, 10:22 PM
No, actually I meant the one in the menu "Proxy|Subdiv Proxy".
This would link the original mesh to a new one via a polySmoothProxy node. It's what we used before the '3' key method. I think that the algorithm used to smooth is different, and sometimes the polySmoothProxy is more tolerant of strange topology. And you also get a choice between "exponential" and "linear" smoothing methods.

-- David
tinitus
10-22-2009, 12:44 PM
hej! thx djx!
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