There's no stupid questions, there's a lot of details to grasp when you get involved in 3d, especially when using different programs.

Somebody else will surely learn from your question !

Marc

I was going to punch in this thread where MG talks about G1, G2 etc... ANd points out that it can affect the specularity buildup on those edges. Seems the issue was solved with an import setting but this still may be relavent to smoothing those edges in your render.

http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=290.2

Hi Sven, they were good questions.

You probably would have figured it out yourself if XSI used something less cryptic for that label, like if it said "Load shading normals from file".

Also there would only be kind of rare instances (if any at all) that you would want to disable that, so they should have it default to on instead of off...


But anyway now that you know that import option should be on, you should get proper results - your new screenshot there looks perfect!

- Michael

I'm glad you've solved your problem - I guess my reply wasn't too clear to you as well.

I had eluded to the fact that if the program doesn't display the normals properly as MoI provides them, you're going to see the artifacts that you experienced and provided screen caps to show.

Yes, with XSI you have to make sure you read in the normals that MoI provides upon import.

I still at times find that Cinema 4D's display of MoI objects is cleaner than XSI's. Admittedly, I haven't tried v7.5 all that much since I've been focusing on C4D and Lightwave lately so I don't know if anything has been improved in this area...

-Will