Thanks guys, soften/harden polys does the trick

Be warned though: you have to select the edges where these artifacts occur and apply varying degrees of smoothing to them to get rid of artifacts.
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Those objects were converted from subd to polygon.

Using the mesh smoothing options only improves the quality of subd or nurbs meshes - I think, because it didn't help.

No left over vertex's...

Hi

I am having trouble converting a subd object to a polygon object, I get these strange black faces around certain edges in the viewports as well as when I render.
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Sorry, posted in the worng section, moved my post here:

http://forum.simplymaya.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20018

Thanks
/BlueShift

Thanks JD

I was aware of the polygon and SubD creasing tools, I was just hoping I had overlooked some features that give you more controll over SubD creases.

I didn't say this before but...

How did you get the tight edges on the places like the hood, is this subd modeling?

If you look at Rob's renders of his Ferrari 360, and pay attention to the hood you'll notice its very round near...