Smoothing Issues

[ADaugirdas]

i know that sketch up has problems with smooth geometry because it uses a polygonal system. at first i thought there was no way to transfer sketch up’s smoothing function into vray, but i keep seeing all these perfectly curved shapes in other people’s renders. whats the secret?

i’m trying to render this barcelona chair… screen shot of no smoothing, with smoothing, and then rendered.

edit: whoops, nevermind, apparently there are already tons of threads on this.

[ADaugirdas]

Re: Smoothing Issues

alright, i went through and assigned the material to the base geometry rather than the group which solved most of my woes. however, as you can see on the top left of every button the shadow is still all chopped up