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Is there any way to turn off smoothing easily? Having 400 or 500 architectural objects, rectangles and composites which can render oddly at times, is time consuming to fix. In Poser this feature is located in the object properties panel once and there is a python script to turn them off in one second. The octane plugin moves this feature to the texture area and some objects can have several texture zones requiring a manual uncheck for each texture. In other words, one uncheck can become several. And since this issue is object related even if it appears when normals are acceptable, why relegate it to texture zones? After all its a poser plugin, right? And yes turning off smoothing in Poser does not prevent the plugin from inserting it again. Any advice would be appreciated, thanks.

Billyjoe - you can turn OFF all smoothing in the Setup window -> untick "Smooth Default". You will then need to reconvert all materials (rightclick the scene in the Materials tab, "Recovert All Materials From Poser"). Poser does not allow a plugin to see the "Smooth" status of a figure/prop unfortunately.

Paul

Oh boy, thanks so much, that was getting tiresome lol!

There is an alternative solution to the smoothing problem.
If you do not use Poser smoothing, but Octane smoothinng (Set the smoothing angle in the plugin Setup window to 80 instead of 0) most of the materials will render correctly. There is a drawback however. Figures like V4 have to be set to Unimesh skinning before you render in Octane (In Poser select figure, Figure!Skinning Method!Unimesh). IF you don't you may have seam problems in the limbs.

So far this has worked pretty well for me and saves a lot of time not having to turn off or on the smoothing on some flat surfaces

If you want to have Poser smoothing back, set the smoothing angle to 0 again in the Setup window. Do a refresh of the scene to apply the smoothing option