ProBoolean "Glitch"

[alkarnur]

Hello everyone, I've been checking this site since the days when it was
called HighEnd3D. Now that I started on my journey to learn 3D, I
finally registered.

I purchased a Lynda.com tutorial, 3ds Max
Essential Training to help me get started and I've been around with the
proboolean object type. However, there's a side effect that happens
whenever I use it:

As
you can see, one of the surfaces is not smooth. This is a model of a
pyramid-shaped stand and the smaller pyramids I've "carved out" (using
proboolean substraction) are used to put items into them, such as shoes
or folded shirts etc.

My question is, how do I make the surface smooth? Thanks in advance for your help guys

[joojaa]

You cant really use booleans to carve out things out of polys, except in extraordinary circumstances. It just don't really work out. See polygons are inexact and booleans are exact what you get is a sort of gray area thats mostly nowhere near what you want. You may luck out but its just not something that works, theres just way too much tech stuff on what polygons really are that are against you. So when youd get the right shape youd blow out the normal interpolation.

However if you can make a normal map to supplement it then you can get the effect as long as the interpolation dont screw your uv's. But that sia completely different story.