Smothing Groups 3DMAX

[Bruno]

I need help converting a ship to SFC3 from 3DMAX 5
dont no how to make smooth Shades , the ships ether
get flat shades or bad Shadows , I´m new in 3DMAX

(Can i post pictures of my model ?)

Thanks

[Tus]

apply a smooth to the ship, apply edit mesh, detach the smoothing groups to the mesh... all are under the model attributes area (u will need to use the select smothing groups button somewhere in there)

[smiley]

Smoothing groups are a nightmare, on auto they either smooth too much or too little, and you can guarantee that the bit that you want to be smoothed doesn't!
Fiddling around with the grouping for every single face/polygon though is not a particularly joyful experience!

[Tus]

i personally use auto smooth on everything. all it takes is a little bit of patience to correct some over smoothing, but its a lot easier than doing it manually.