Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

Subject: How do I get rid of the over smoothing

pnevai opened this issue on Mar 14, 2002 ยท 14 posts

pnevai posted Thu, 14 March 2002 at 1:35 AM

This is a model I created in Lightwave, I wish to make this available to poser users but first the oversmoothing needs to be addressed. How can this be resolved. The mesh is an exported obj file that displays fine while in Lightwave but gets too soft in poser.

JeffH posted Thu, 14 March 2002 at 1:46 AM

Take the OBJ into UVmapper (free) and "split" the verts. The edges will be crisp after that. UVmapper Pro (not free) can do this based on the crease angle for more acuracy.

pnevai posted Thu, 14 March 2002 at 1:51 AM

Damn, that does not sound good as it needs a degree of smoothing, else the rounded corners on the wings will become jagged and the wheels not be smooth. But this is Way too much.

pnevai posted Thu, 14 March 2002 at 1:52 AM

This is the Lightwave render

JeffH posted Thu, 14 March 2002 at 1:57 AM

Well try it and see what happens. Maybe separate the areas you don't want to be split.

Little_Dragon posted Thu, 14 March 2002 at 2:15 AM

If you feel up to a bit more work in Lightwave, bevel the edges that you don't want smoothed.


pnevai posted Thu, 14 March 2002 at 2:37 AM

OK it worked rather well I just have to apply UV to the stick and the rubberband as, seems like psoer needs UV to get a texture on the surface.

Tashar59 posted Thu, 14 March 2002 at 2:59 AM

That is a nice model. Just brought back childhood memmories, I spent most of my cash as a kid on those things. Nice work. Tashar 59

pnevai posted Thu, 14 March 2002 at 3:01 AM

Well look for it in the Poser Free Stuff in the next day or so!!!!!!!

steveshanks posted Thu, 14 March 2002 at 3:52 AM

I did a tutorial on this a while back when there was a lot of posts about it...hope its useful :o) Steve http://interneteye3d.com/Tutorials/2002/Feb/SoS/default.asp

PheonixRising posted Thu, 14 March 2002 at 4:03 AM

Wow...major childhood flashback.

-Anton, creator of ApolloMaximus: 32,000+ downloads since 3-13-07
"Conviction without truth is denial; Denial in the face of truth is concealment."



NEW The Poser FaceInterMixer

Anthony Appleyard posted Thu, 14 March 2002 at 10:23 AM

What Poser needs is a maximum smoothing angle like Bryce has.

TMGraphics posted Thu, 14 March 2002 at 11:01 AM

I made one of those for an old Rhino contest but I must say, I like your better, more realistic! Great modeling job!

hauksdottir posted Fri, 15 March 2002 at 5:19 AM

pnevai, I'm glad that was a Lightwave render and that you weren't really flying one of those in Yosemite Valley. You don't know how it feels to be a climber and hear an airplane below you. (This actually happened during the Vietnam conflict... those flyboys would go through the Valley and hope to pullup before they hit HalfDome.) Anyway, that is a cute model and will gleefully be added to my toy collection. :) Carolly