Forum: Vue


Subject: How is this possible?

RemcoVANMERM opened this issue on Mar 11, 2006 ยท 18 posts


jc posted Sun, 12 March 2006 at 12:09 AM

Yes, i agree with dburdick. It's a problem with the mesh you are importing. Take a close look at the mesh in Wings. Look for any polygons with more than 4 sides and split those so they have no more than 4 sides.

In case you're not familiar with 3D jargon, "n-gons" means "any number of sides" and infers too many sides. A "quad" is a polygon with 4 sides and a "tri" is a tringular polygon.

Look also for gaps or other problems. And when you want high resolution, you have to have enough polys to support that, or your model with look "faceted".

You can adjust the "Smoothing Angle" in Vue to smooth out some of that "faceting". Right-click on the object parts, choose "Edit Object" and look at the smoothing angle. Larger angles give a smoother look, but smooth out details.

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