[Bf-committers] Smooth shading could be better (compared to C4D)

[Felix Schlitter]

I think Morten is right. However, I agree that the default blender viewport
shading is a bit "weaker" compared to some other packages, e.g. Maya. It is
possible to approach the same look you get in the default Maya viewport,
however, by adjusting the GLSL lights in the preferences.

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Morten Mikkelsen <mikkelsen7 at gmail.com>wrote:

> >Could it be that Cinema4D is using Phong-Shading and Blender is using
> Gouraud-Shading?
>
> Yes that's exactly what you're seeing. You can switch to glsl view if you
> want to view it in Blender with per pixel lighting.
> Regular 3D view has to remain fixed function rendering pipeline which
> implies Gouraud shading.
> I'd argue there's nothing to look into here (no mystery).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Morten.
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Andreas Galster <
> andreas_galster at hotmail.de
> > wrote:
>
> >
> > What do you mean? Both C4D's and Blender's normals are pointing in the
> same
> > direction. Not sure how much vertex normals affect this, but I'm not
> aware
> > of any way to check vertex normals in C4D.
> > Could it be that Cinema4D is using Phong-Shading and Blender is using
> > Gouraud-Shading?
> >
> > > Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:53:36 -0500
> > > From: xgl.asyliax at gmail.com
> > > To: bf-committers at blender.org
> > > Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Smooth shading could be better (compared
> to
> > C4D)
> > >
> > > We'd also need to know if normals are coming over with the .obj or are
> > > they being calculated once inside Blender?
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Tom M <letterrip at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > would be good to provide a few screenshots so people can see what
> > > > blender does and what you would like it to do.
> > > >
> > > > LetterRip
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Andreas Galster
> > > > <andreas_galster at hotmail.de> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> Today I received a model as an .obj file from Cinema4D to continue
> > working on it, while my workmate is on vacation. It turned out that the
> > smooth shading in Blender highlights/shows shading artifacts due to
> toplogy
> > (like poles) a lot more than Cinema4D does.
> > > >> Also beveled edges and corners are displayed a lot smoother in C4D.
> > Maybe someone can look into this?
> > > >>
> > > >> Kind regards,
> > > >> Andreas Galster
> > > >>
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