Info on facetted surfaces

[dalomar_cg]

A number of you have been running into surfaces coming out faceted rather than smooth like they are in SU. This is a known issue (its in the Read me file), and something that we will be looking to resolve in future builds. For the time being here's some more info from our head programmer, Joe, that might be of use to some of you that are seeing this.

That is the problem that occurs when applying a material indirectly to a curved surface. My guess is that the user is applying a textured material to the component, or a parent component, that contains that curved surface. When we do our internal work to determine which "true" material needs to be applied it loses its "curve" and becomes faceted.

There is a work-around to this problem. The user needs to apply the texture material directly to the curved surface - not to a parent component.

[thomthom]

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Well I'll be... it works! Whoohoo! I don't have to explode.

I normally apply material straight to the geometry, but for Profile Builder groups I applied them to the group so I didn't have to apply them every time I changed the profile.


I'm thinking of putting together a model analyser which will examine the model and check for known potential issues and suggest solutions. It's be useful for my office and I suppose people around this forum might find it useful as well.

[thomthom]

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p.s. This post would be useful as a sticky. Or part of a sticky FYI/FAQ post.

[Ibontxu]

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Many, many, many thanks Dalomar, really. It's very usefull

[LuisDoBenfica]

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Thanks for this important tip.