Polygon normal editing

[user_deleted]

Hi, I have a question maybe asked alot in this forum already.
I made a half human head with polygon, the vertex normal at on the nose side edge is not facing straight forward. As you would imagine facets will show up after I mirror -> attach.
So I did polygon -> mirroGeometry and adjust distance to weld the vertices. and than average normal with 0 distance on selected vertices. I would imagine thats the usuall way to do in this case?

Anyway the vertical line in the middle of the face is still no perfectly smooth. (any explaination?)

And if I now do polygon -> reduce, the half of the face is lighter shade than the other half. So the shared normals have been removed again I persume.

What did I miss?

I know its noooot 3D !

[jerry-hnk]

if its a problem with non-uniform normals, then go to polygons-cleanup and check the normal box........ or you can manually select the faces to inverse to normals

[binomonkey]

what-up
i get this all the time. just snap the middle verts to the second row and make sure they in about the same plane. I usually duplicate 1 side of the head and flip it and reverse the normals because they r reversed auto...Combine, select and set norms to face. color diff is now gone..hope this helps

[zza]

yep
-merge verts/edges at the join..
-get rid of any unwanted borders at join
-smooth edges you merged at join
bingo