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Equivalent of smoothing groups?

by Daniel Allessi · in Artist Corner · 06/04/2005 (11:40 am) · 6 replies

I searched on the forums here and on google, but couldn't find a decent answer. I'm just moving to Blender from Milkshape and I'm loving it so far except I can't seem to get the equivalent of Milkshape's smoothing groups. Any Blender gurus know how to do this?

Btw, making the model in Milkshape took about an hour, and about 15 minutes in Blender. Wow. :)
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Torque Owner Daniel Allessi
#1
06/05/2005 (8:59 am)
For those interested: If you split the mesh (YKEY) into the smoothing groups you want, it exports with the same results as Milkshape's smoothing groups.

Torque Owner Gustavo Munoz
#2
06/06/2005 (2:09 am)
Thank you, Daniel, a very usefull tip.

Torque Owner Nigel Hungerford-Symes
#3
07/03/2005 (6:03 am)
I don't know if this is new in 2.37 or something but isn't the "set smooth" button on the editing (F9) panel the same as smoothing groups?

I mean you select the faces you want smooth and then you hit "set smooth" and the normals are averaged, isn't that how it is supposed to work? I'm sure of an exact definition of smoothing groups but that is what I thought they were.

Torque Owner Daniel Allessi
#4
07/04/2005 (1:53 pm)
It doesn't export that information to DTS though.

Torque Owner Nigel Hungerford-Symes
#5
07/05/2005 (1:26 am)
Good point. :)

But, doesn't TGE use it's own manipulations of the vertex normals anyway? I have no hard evidence, but it looks like all my models have their vertices averaged automatically when I import them into Torque - does anyone know for sure whether Torque automatically averages the vert normals?

Torque Owner Daniel Allessi
#6
07/05/2005 (7:29 am)
It does automatically it seems, but what smoothing groups give is control over which it averages together. :(