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ZB3 Smoothing tears geometry

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#1

Hello fellow artists. I need to draw upon your vast knowledge.

As a newby to ZB3…and ZB2 for that matter - I am have trouble solving a few bizzard problems.

I have imported my model from Lightwave as a OBJ or DXF and from other packages - but I have the same problems.

  1. When I try to divide the mesh it implodes

  2. When I try to smooth the mesh it tears inward even when Z intensity is set to 1.

These meshes are heavy. I lowered the geometry but, it made no difference.

I have tried other models of mine and the same thing happens.

Please see the attached images.

Any help would be appreciated VERY much.

Regards, John Cooper

Attachments

Smoothed.jpg

Subdivided.jpg

#2

Your mesh probably has some bad geometry in it. Such as edges connecting > 2 polys, and other such things.

#3

try this

go to tools and select the polymesh (starshaped) tool then scroll down the tool menu til you see import and click on that…try these settings.
merge - on
tri2quad - about 40
and weld - .01

see if that helps at all

#4

Thank you Aminuts. I will try this tonight and let you know how what happens.

Thanx for your time and support.

John Cooper

#5

I tried your suggestion - It work like a charm! I spent 3 days trying to solve this.
I am about to do some VFX work on a film and I needed to get this right…

If I can do anything for you or help you with any project - contact me!

Thank you very much.

John Cooper

#6

Cool, I am glad it worked for you! :smiley: