I've converted a model from lightwave to a wavefront object, but when I import it into poser, some of the surfaces become more rounded, and make it look like something that's been over-inflated. I've seen something somewhere about being able to prevent this by changing the model using uv-mapper. Can anyone help me?

Daz Studio 4.8 and 4.9beta, Blender 2.78, Sketchup, Poser Pro 2014 Game Dev SR5 on Windows 8 Pro x64. Poser Display Units are inches

There are a number of ways to deal with this. In LW, you can select the polygons you want to have sharp edges and either unweld them, or cut and then paste them back into the viewport. You can also use the unweld command on points to achieve the same effect. You can also build in a small bevel on every surface you don't want smoothed. In UVMapper classic, you can use the split vertices command under edit tools, but this splits all vertices and leaves any surfaces that arounded looking faceted. In UVMapper Pro, you can choose which polygons to be affected by the split, and the smoothing angle, which works pretty well. Regards- Lemurtek

thanks Lemurtek

Daz Studio 4.8 and 4.9beta, Blender 2.78, Sketchup, Poser Pro 2014 Game Dev SR5 on Windows 8 Pro x64. Poser Display Units are inches