RedPhantom posted at 10:31 AM Thu, 16 May 2024 - #4484839

To be honest, I keep looking at the original images and I don't see much difference. What do you mean by correct normals? Are you saying they're reversed?

Nothing so rudimentary as flipped normals. OP wants to smooth the transition between the curve of the bevel into the flat plane of the face, without additional geometry. There are shading artifacts in his render, which are obvious if you know what they look like, similar to those kind of smoothing artifacts you see in Poser's Firefly smooth shading when there isn't sufficient geometry to reign in the smoothing. OP is looking for a way to manipulate the normals to smooth the transitions.