Super NOOB question..I am flummoxed.

[Anonymous]

So I'm trying to understand normals on both vertecies and faces. I've been reading all I can but this one thing is driving me crazy.

In the screen shot attached, you can see that some of the vertecies have more than one normal pointing out of them (vertex in middle of shot has three). What is that telling me? I don't understand how a vertex can have more than one normal. Does that mean that there is more than one vertex nearby?

I'm really confused. The polys with the "multiple normals" at the vertecies are shading all weird. 

Thank you for ANY and all help/thoughts/suggestions.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

This will explain why there are multiple normals - In short:
Vertex normals appear as lines projecting from the vertex, one for each face that shares the vertex.
read this-
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/MayaLT/f...

[Anonymous]

Thank you David. That is helpful.

Also, someone posted a link to an old video (post since removed for some reason) that was very helpful as well. Thank you to whomever that was. 

Thanks everyone!!

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[pshwayka]

CAUTON: That video link was removed because the Vimeo page it was on had a link to a website that will hijack your browser.

[Anonymous]

Oh! Got it. Thank you for the heads up.