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Alright, what is going on here?

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Usually things like this are caused by unwelded vertices or smoothing groups gone wrong. I have tried everything in the book to fix it: Mass welding of all vertices, checking smoothing groups, making sure duplicate polys weren't hiding under the surface, using the Edit Normals > Reset modifier, resetting X-Form, even remapping the entire part...Nope. Nothing has had any effect.

It started as just a couple of unshaded grey polys on the apex of the V-stab...Now it's spread to the whole top of it after I tried to delete the offenders and patch the holes with new mesh. Has anybody else been plagued by this?
 

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I've had that happen. Problem is that it happened a long time ago and I'm trying to remember what the fix was! :scratchch
Explore mirroring the offending polys. I seem to recall that it was something like that...
 
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Is the mapping degenerated to a line for those polys? FS-X seems to hate that. Good news is you do not need to alter the geometry, just the mapping to give polys at least a pixel of texture depth!
 

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@mariomotta may have hit on the problem. Check for degenerate polys. A degenerate poly is a polygon with only two vertices and therefore an edge line with polygon properties that will play havoc with textures. They can be hard to find. Compile the object to MDL and check your build log. Any degenerate polys will be listed there.
 
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have you exported the geometry yet? That's the quickest way to find a degenerated poly.

Yeah, I'll have to check the build log for a degenerate then when I get home. Seems to be the consensus here...I know that in Max I deleted all of the problem polys in the first place but maybe those edges that I extruded the new mesh from were degenerate in some way.
 
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Hmm...After checking the build log, I didn't find any discrepancies related to the part in question. Looks like I'm going to have to patch that section with a new object. :(
 
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Ah ha! Mario and Paul, you were on to something. It turns out that I didn't have any degenerate POLYS in my mesh, I had degenerate MAPPING of it. The polygons along the stabilizer's top (which is UV'ed with Planar mapping from the sides) are perfectly flat on the Z-axis and share UV space with the next loop of edges. Pulling those edge vertices out about a pixel or two in UV space seems to have solved the problem. ;) I didn't realize that improper UV mapping could cause things like this.

Thanks guys.
 
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