Quote - Are the vertices of the pipe end welded to the base? I'd say detach those vertices and try those as two separate objects instead if they are. I believe the 'twisting' is occuring from the base if they are welded together.

Although edge loops to keep the 'frame' intact with smoothing on is of course a good idea. Poser likes to balloon/break edge lengths where there are none intersecting those long lengths with smoothing on.

 

Yeah, they were welded. I haven't worried about adding new edge loops or anything though and I doubt I will. As I wrote above this was just a part of a simple and distant thing, and without smoothing on it looks fine.

But I'll definitely think about that for future objects I make for Poser. This was just an unusual thing I put together quickly - unusual in that I wouldn't normally have long polygons like that, but it made sense at the time considering the shape of the thing.

I still say though that there's something wrong with Poser's smoothing. Modo and Softimage don't do that to that object and I doubt that 3ds max, Lightwave or Maya would either. They'll make it look a little "mushy" around the base until a good smoothing angle is reached, but nothing like that wild distortion in the images.

But Poser isn't wrong of course, just different. ;-)

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