Shadow Problems?

Maya for 3D Printing - Rapid Prototyping

In this course we're going to look at something a little different, creating technically accurate 3D printed parts.

# 1 12-03-2012 , 10:36 PM

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For some reason the shader is completely screwed up where certain portions of my mesh are darker than the others. Tried to add lighting and some changing the render settings but to no avail.

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It can't be my computer because I'm able to play Oblivion & Fallout 3 at MAX settings and no lag. This is an older version of Maya too so it puzzles me that I would be having this issue.

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# 2 12-03-2012 , 10:44 PM

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# 3 12-03-2012 , 10:46 PM

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The same way, sadly.

Edit: Added a Surface Material which fixed it somewhat. Will report back after adding some textures.

Edit 2: Added some floor textures and it didn't fix the problem, its still dark in certain spots.

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# 4 12-03-2012 , 11:14 PM

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Check that you don't have duplicate geo in the same spot.
And check your normals too.

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# 5 13-03-2012 , 09:49 AM

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Can it be hard/soft edges? I've had simmilar results once when I accidentaly did an extrude on some hard edged geo and the smoothing value was incorrect on the extrude.

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