Forum: 3D Modeling

Subject: Joining cubes and spheres/cylinders - have I done this sensibly?

3dcheapskate opened this issue on May 13, 2010 ยท 44 posts

3dcheapskate posted Sun, 16 May 2010 at 11:39 PM

Got it! The Poser render problem turned out to be smoothing groups in the .obj file (basic .obj format here ). Smooth shading was set in the .obj for about twenty faces (some triangles, some quads) - somehow I must have told Blender to do this. One of the risks of using a tool you don't fully understand, I guess?!

Here's an extract from the .obj - it might help anybody who has a similar problem:

usemtl Stupa
s off
f 30/1 34/2 49/3 31/4
...
s 1
f 18/695 21/694 451/584
s off
...

Simply removing all the "s 1" / "s off" line pairs (but not the faces between them!) cleared the problem.

The 3Dcheapskate* occasionally posts sensible stuff. Usually by accident.
And it usually uses Poser 11, with units set to inches. Except when it's using Poser 6 or PP2014, or when its units are set to PNU.

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