[Bf-funboard] Material Data-

[Campbell Barton]

Hi Kent 

Yes, I do realize you can turn smoothing on and off- But often more 
controle is needed.

Bust option is to have manual editing of normals- very face (like vert 
colours)
I have offered 2k euro for this and Ton also has given his approval- But 
nobody who can re-jig blenders internals has enough time.

Smoothing int that usefull since it smooths everything, outo smoothing 
is good but per object and only applies to rendering.

- Cam

>In reply to Campbell Barton (cbarton@metavr.com):
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>>>>>I thinks its a good way of giving the User control of how the mesh 
>>>>>looks.
>>>>>at the moment you need to split the object up into many just to have 
>>>>>different smoothing values.
>>>>>Many formats have the smoothing as a material value- I dont see why 
>>>>>it cant be on the object and optionaly a sart of the material.
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>Then mabe blender needs smoothing groups- Would be a property of the 
>>face- mabe 255 diferent smoothing groups per face?
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>Cambell, you do realise you can smoth parts of a mesh without spitting it up
>right?
>
>try this create a cube.  Extrude the left side out and back from the camera.
>Then do the same on the right.
>Render and notice the sharp edges.
>
>          .----.----.----.
>          |    |    |    |
>          .----.----.----.
>                       ^
>                      select everything left of the ^ in edit mode
>			and click set smooth 
>
>then re render.
>
>Kent
>
>P.S. Sorry for the bad ascii art ;)
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