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Fan Area => The Hydlaa Plaza => Topic started by: Shadowfalcon on December 15, 2004, 07:43:13 am

Title: 3D Modeling problem
Post by: Shadowfalcon on December 15, 2004, 07:43:13 am

Hi everyone, I\'m working on a project for school, a self portrait. I have a problem though, strange shadow artifacts are apearing on my model, like so.

(http://www.shadow.theonestopstation.com/Assets/Pictures/Shading%20problem.jpg)

Does anyone know what causes this, and/or how to fix it?

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Post by: Frarda on December 15, 2004, 08:26:27 am

Its a problem with Smooth Shading, you need to adjust what faces are in what smoothing groups to fix it. Play with it for a while and you\'ll figure it out.

Sometimes \"turning\" the faces 90 degrees helps... like delete the two faces and make two new faces to replace them except in on the other diagonal of the quad... that may be hard to understand, but basically, if the quad dips in, it can cause that effect, if you change the faces so the quad doesn\'t dip in, that effect will often go away.

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Post by: JellyWerker on December 16, 2004, 03:05:29 am

I third that. Are you using mathematical smothing, if so, therein lies the problem.