Parts of mesh not turbo smoothing

Notes · Jul 2015

Ran into this a few times and never figured out what have caused it. Usually I would rebuild the mesh over again but this was a pretty complex piece that I would like to keep if possible.

Inside the red lines are faces of the mesh that are not turbo smoothing...I have no idea why..
I've made sure that its all welded, normals are not inverted, not separated by smoothing groups or materials. I've even deleted the effected faces and remodeled them back in and it still does it!!! :banghead:

Any ideas or solutions GREATLY appreciated...

Im on max 2013 and windows 7 64 bit

Ruz · Jul 2015

I would just export the mesh an obj then reimport it.
Its a bug of some sort, I have tried everyhting in the past to fix this issue, only thing that seemed to work is rebuiilding those affected faces or the first fix I mentioned

Lamont · Jul 2015

Check the options. See if you have Smoothing Groups or Materials checked.

Here's what I get..

Neox · Jul 2015

Lamont wrote: »

Check the options. See if you have Smoothing Groups or Materials checked.

you can see the options on that screenshot

seems like it's just a bugged mesh that needs rebuilding, not in the sense of doing it from scartch tho.

the obj trick should work, another option would be to throw away the turbosmooth, break all points, merge again, edit mesh, edit poly. turbosmooth again. sometimes stuff just gets borked up for odd reasons

Lamont · Jul 2015

Neox wrote: »

you can see the options on that screenshot

Blast you and your thoroughness.

Shrike · Jul 2015

you could also have a super tiny indent / loop per accident that you simply don't see from that distance , causing that sharp split

kanga · Jul 2015

Shrike wrote: »

you could also have a super tiny indent / loop per accident that you simply don't see from that distance , causing that sharp split

If you are in max use xview to check the mesh on a number of errors as well. Maybe you already do check, but just in case.

Notes · Jul 2015

Ruz wrote: »

I would just export the mesh an obj then reimport it.

You're my hero!!!!!

MUCH THANKS!!!

Joao Sapiro · Jul 2015

next time just add an edit mesh before the turbosmooth , that happens somtimes in max.

Notes · Jul 2015

Joao, I had nurbs hotkeyed so I could toggle it on and off and having to add that stack would've been...'cumbersome' :P
But I will do that once Im completely done with the model...thanks

Neox · Jul 2015

oh you mean you toggled nurms (not nurbs) inside the editable poly?
if you use the turbosmooth modifier you can use the "show endresult toggle" as a shortcut

Fomori · Jul 2015

Been getting this error for a while now in the last few versions of Max.

Joao Sapiro wrote: »

next time just add an edit mesh before the turbosmooth , that happens somtimes in max.

Similar to that solution, I usually add a mesh smooth modifier with 0 iterations which usually fixes it.

Shiv · Jul 2015

I add an optimize and just kill all the reduction to fix it heh.

So many different ways

Ruz · Jul 2015

no worries notes. you would think they would have fixed that bug by now:/

Parts of mesh not turbo smoothing

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