topic Re: Deleted crucial vertices - how to fix damaged mesh? in 3ds Max Modeling Forum

Deleted crucial vertices - how to fix damaged mesh?

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 09:29:13 GMT

Hi all,

A little while back I attempted to manually optimise the polycount of a mesh I had made, but in doing this I made the rookie move of deleting some crucial vertices. Now the model has weird shading on its faces when rendered, and I'm not sure how to repair the mesh.. would anyone know if repairing is possible/how to go about it?

Many thanks!

Re: Deleted crucial vertices - how to fix damaged mesh?

Fadhil_Farook — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 10:07:47 GMT

Since it's about smoothing groups, it would help us if you can post an image with the Edges as well, since that's more defining.

Re: Deleted crucial vertices - how to fix damaged mesh?

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 13:19:14 GMT

Hi Fadhil, sorry for the late reply. Here are some shots showing the edges:

Re: Deleted crucial vertices - how to fix damaged mesh?

Fadhil_Farook — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:04:50 GMT

Try AUTOSMOOTH. That should do it. If you're doing this for games... there's way too many N-Gons. But since the perpendicular Lines are present, applying Autosmooth should fix it.

Re: Deleted crucial vertices - how to fix damaged mesh?

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 03:38:53 GMT

I would try selecting all faces and removing them from smoothing groups. You likely don't need smoothing on a building.