Substance Painter
In this start to finish texturing project within Substance Painter we cover all the techniques you need to texture the robot character.
# 1 22-09-2005 , 05:25 PM
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Smoothing issues

Does anyone know if it is possible to seperate smoothed faces on a polygonal object, like the option available in 3ds max`s editable poly (smoothing groups). I know about average normals in Maya, and this is fine to some extent, but I want to be able to distinguish between different artifacts on one model, such as shirt cuffs and trousers etc. I may not be utilising the average normals option properly, so if anyone can point me on that, I`d appreciate it.
Up till now I have been cutting a new edge loop close to the edge I need to remain "hard" prior to smoothing, but this seems to be a long way round. :headbang:

All info welcomed

MJ


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# 2 22-09-2005 , 05:52 PM
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The easiest way to smooth is to click on the edge which borders to two faces you wish to smooth together (assuming they're combined AND merge-vertex'd) and type in the little textbox in the lower left-hand corner of the screen:

polySoftEdge -a 180

to UNsmooth the edge:
polySoftEdge -a 0

And yes, you need it capitalized exactly like that.
Also -- applied in object mode will do it to the entire object -- and there are some other stipulations with face mode I believe. If it errors (which it commonly does) change your way of doing it. Maya's picky like that.

# 3 22-09-2005 , 08:08 PM
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or just go into your edit polygon menu -> normals -> soften harden and use that instead of typing

# 4 30-09-2005 , 02:01 PM
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Thanks a lot guys, I will try this when I get home user added image


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# 5 30-09-2005 , 04:11 PM
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Or you could switch to Sub-D's and use creases, but I think that basically does the same as adding edges close together...


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