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Ever tried this?

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This all falls under the heading of smoothing, so before I describe this, I should ask if there's anything you all use for smoothing other than Smoothing Groups. I have to confess to not fully understanding smoothing, I guess...

Does this seem sound to you? I was doing a tutorial on modeling and the artist recommended that for an area I don't want smoothed, to select two edges, the use a connect modifier to slide a new edge closer to the edge I want to exclude. The theory here is that it will only smooth to that placed edge and no farther. Now I have been trying this, but not having a whole lot of luck with it. I want my fuselage round, but I want the cockpit trim to stay sharp...

What do you guys think?

Kevin

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FelixFFDS said:
Select the polgons of the cockpit edge and set smoothing group to 0 or none?
Click to expand...

I thought of that. That works ok, but I'm not getting the smoothing I want elsewhere. It's really starting to tick me off that this thing is so close to done, but the little stuff is killing me. Before I go back to the Peashooter I was working on, I want this worked out...
 
Hey KDRyan,


If you simply want to get rid of those lines, do this..

Convert to Editable Poly
Select Edges
Click Delete

The Edges should delete fine and leave the Poly skin intact. If one should be left remaining, then its sharing Vertices that cannot be deleted. Find out why, fix it, then delete the remaining Edge.

Another way is to delete the area around the edges, (with the part being a E-Poly), and then select Border, click on the opening, and click Cap on the RH control panel under the Border menu.



Bill
 
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