Forum: Vue


Subject: smooth/facteted curved objects

nick1 opened this issue on Aug 18, 2003 ยท 28 posts


nick1 posted Mon, 18 August 2003 at 7:28 PM

Hi there all. in the picture attached, the left Cylinder was modeled in Sketchup3D( AutoCAD gives the same result when saved in 3DS and then loaded in Vue). The right Cylinder was modeled in Wings3D and saved in 3DS and loaded in Vue. Regardless of what rendering mode I choose, the Sketchup3d/AutoCAD one always renders faceted, whereas the Wings3D one looks smooth. When modeled, the Sketchup3D one was drawn as a circular/surface having made up of 12 or 16 closed segmants/polylines, and then extruded/pushed up to make the Cylinder. The Wings3D one is just a regular Cylinder primitive scaled uniformly and by default has 16 sides/faces. They both get saved in 3Ds format. How is it that they render differently in Vue? Thanks in advance, Nick