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How to make this things smoother

Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 4:15 pm
by tonycho
Hi all, I am new in Modo
please help me how to make this sofa have a smooth surface?


I already using modo Octane 1.05 plugins
Using SubD twice still can't give very smooth surface
maybe someone can tell me how to manage in modo
sorry if anyone already post this topic to forum, please give me the link :D

Thanks a lot everyone :D
Tony
sofa.jpg

Re: How to make this things smoother

Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 9:41 pm
by timbarnes
modo and Octane take different approaches to creating smooth surfaces. In modo you can use sub-D to get the software to interpolate a smooth surface which shows up correctly in the modeling windows and in the render. In Octane you are dealing with the actual polygons you export (which can be more or less smooth, but there's a switch on the materials (last setting at the bottom of the list) to set them to smooth: this will usually give you the effect you want.

If you want to be really accurate, subdivide to create a very close approximation to what you want in modo, and export that to Octane, then use material smoothing as the final step.

I've had good results with that same couch (I think) from the modo content library.
Tangram tables 0.JPG

Re: How to make this things smoother

Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 3:29 am
by tonycho
i see, ok I understand now :lol:
yes the sofa from modo library :)

Thanks a lot Timbarnes

Regards
Tony