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Smoothing group problem?

by Ian Omroth Hardingham · in Artist Corner · 10/05/2009 (7:55 am) · 1 replies

Hey guys.

I have a problem with some nasty edge artifacts on these models:

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I have no modelling experience - what do you think the problem is here? A smoothing groups problem? My guy is using Maya.

Thanks for any help,
Ian
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Torque Owner Jeremy Farley
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10/12/2009 (8:26 pm)
Yes, it is a smoothing groups problem. It depends on how your artist is creating the normal map. Generally it's expected that the entire mesh will be a single smoothing group. There are tutorials out there of how to fix these issues (because some objects need to have different smoothing groups). I don't have a link with me here at work. But I'm sure you can find something on Google...