Forum: Carrara

Subject: Smoothing/Sub-division of metaball objects

biggert opened this issue on Feb 21, 2004 · 4 posts

biggert posted Sat, 21 February 2004 at 11:04 PM

hi! is it possible to smooth or subdivide non-vertex modeler objects? like for example in the pic i used two metaball objects and merged them...the problem is the meshes seem to have a low poly count...and so they dont smooth well...i've tried to find out a way to smooth this out in Carrara 2.1 but no luck....the anti-alias is set to "best" but no effect too.... can i subdivide these non-vertex modeler objects? thanks very much for any tips. =)

thomllama posted Sun, 22 February 2004 at 2:23 PM

well not that I know of.... but... you can convert metaball objects to a vertex model when you are finished with the metaballs and do it then? might help?

Hexagon, Carrara, Sculptris, and recently Sketchup.

EMC posted Sun, 22 February 2004 at 3:22 PM

In the metaball modeler go to: Geometry -> Surface Fidelity And the same in the spline modeler. The higher the fidelity setting, the more polygons it uses. EMC

biggert posted Sun, 22 February 2004 at 10:26 PM

thanks for the advice guys.... =)