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arail
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I created this model in SketchUp, imported it into modo, cleaned it up and saved it as an OBJ.
The file looks fine in modo but when I open it in Octane I get all these strange triangles and shading errors.
Any advice is appreciated
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radiance
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you need to turn off the 'smooth' option on your material(s) in octane.

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arail
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Thanks for the quick reply.
Turning off Smoothing got rid of almost all the shader errors but not the strange triangulation.

Any thoughts on that?
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arail
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Solved the problem myself.
I haven't worked with OBJ files before.
Faces can't be angled pieces, otherwise they get 'triangulated' like that.
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radiance
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nice, that's one item less for me to do :)

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