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Standart Smooth option

Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 5:21 pm
by Oleg
Hi all, I do not understand how I can reduce the standard rounding in the material, while it turns out that the material with rounded geometry produces unwanted artifacts such as dents. I know this is not a perfect mesh, but I haven't any other

Re: Standart Smooth option

Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 8:13 pm
by profbetis
Your best bet is to do some Normal editing. Sometimes the modeling program has good ways to do auto-smoothing based on angle thresholds. Essentially this comes down to: this is a model/normal issue, not a renderer issue.

Re: Standart Smooth option

Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 11:19 pm
by Zay
You could try to turn off normals and set smooth angle to something like 60 _before_ import.

Re: Standart Smooth option

Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 7:04 am
by Oleg
Yep, this is mostly solved all the problems around the mesh. In Cinema we are using Phong Tag for smoothing. Until yesterday I've didn't know Octane takes into native Phong value. Thanks for help!