Poly Modelling Normals (?) issue

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# 1 13-01-2004 , 09:13 AM

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Hey folks,

Having a smoothing or normal or SOMETHING issue with this dude. Faces around the ear look like a dog pooed on them. I can't seem to get them to smooth out using Soften/Harden. Ideas?

BTW, Happy Belated Cumpleaños, Senior McKinley.

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# 2 13-01-2004 , 09:55 AM

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try to avirge the normals. also, being able to see a unsmoothed wire right around the ear might help. Are most of the faces around the ear quads ?

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# 3 13-01-2004 , 03:51 PM

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RE: Poly Modelling Normals (?) issue

I do average the normals with the BonusGames tool (forget what it's called and I'm not where I can get to it), and it still looks like piss.

I know where the setting is in Max to render the wireframe, but I don't know in Maya.

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# 4 13-01-2004 , 04:38 PM

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you want to get rid of n-sided polys. 4-sided is the goal.

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# 5 13-01-2004 , 05:18 PM

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They are all either quads or tris. I have checked all of the quads. It WAS 3am, but I'm pretty sure I deleted the suspicious faces and recreated them with Append To Polygon.

The ear was difficult without tris, especially the folds and creases inside it.

If you think that that's what's causing it, Mike, then I'll revisit my n-gon hunting spree.

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# 6 13-01-2004 , 10:36 PM

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you can also get weird results like that if edges aren't connected like they should be. might want to move some random vertices around just in case to check.

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# 7 13-01-2004 , 10:42 PM

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you don't have to render the wire, you can always just get a screen cap. You can just hit Ctrl + PrintScreen. That saves the screen to the clipboard. Thin open like photoshop or paint, make a new doc, and past. Trim it and save to a file.

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