Smoothing Faces

[kennyboy]

hello all!

In 3ds max there is a function called smoothing group which allows the user to, when rendering, make adjacent faces appear to be smoothly blended together without a hard edge (i.e two faces appears to be one nice smooth face).

for example, if you have a pyramid polygon, there will 4 triangles and one square. If you set the four trianlges as one smoothing group and set the square as another smoothing group. When you render, it will appear to be a smooth cone with a square bottom.

Does maya have such a function or do i have to mesh smooth it which is an over kill?

[joojaa]

Yes its about adjusting normals! (you should know that, the uderlying algoa bout normals for low poly modelling atleast), I must say that the way maya handles normals is much better.

Maya smoothing works on edges. So if you want some edges sof and some hard. Then select the edges you want to become soft and use soften/harden optionbox all soft. you can find it in edit polygons normals menu. Maya can alos find the smooth edges by smoothing angle too.

Npo no meshsmooth is something totaly different.

[kennyboy]

thank you. I will try that.