How to remove ugly shadow lines on my meshes without significantly changing the mesh or lightning?

[BR011GE (MrBroogie123000)]

When I import my mesh into studio, some edges have a shadow on them that I dont really like and would like to remove them.

Alot of people say i should add more geomety, bevel the edges but i want to keep the same geometry or have changes that nobody will notice to fix the shadows on the edges

I tried triangulating the mesh in blender, tried chaging outdoorAmbient to completely white, tried setting lightning technology to future and voxel, those things didnt change the look of my creation that much but also didnt completely delete the lines of the shadows

Any help, tips to clear the shadows atleast a bit without significantly changing the mesh or lightning are appreciated

[MEsha228900 (lomaric)]

It’s just that you have smoothing normals. Read what “mark sharp” is or just disable anti-aliasing

[BR011GE (MrBroogie123000)]

i want it to be shaded smooth, when the faces are flat it looks odd to me
how can i disable anti aliasing?

[Xitral (Guest)]

You will need to modify the shading of the normals in Blender.

Example:

To remove sharp edges that may cause unwanted shadows:

1. Edit Mode
   

   

2. Select lines/vertices you would like to smooth
   

   

3. Mesh Window
   

   

4. Normals Dropdown
   

5. Average
   

Then it is up to you to decide which looks better for your mesh; face area, or corner angle. You can also Ctrl + A and apply this procedure to all vertices to make the entire mesh look smooth.

Example of a fully smoothed mesh:

Make sure none of your offending lines are marked as sharp in Blender. It is important to note that if you edit the mesh, the new changes will not conform to the normal mapping. You will need to recalculate the shading by following the same process.

Hope this helped!

[BR011GE (MrBroogie123000)]

When i select my edges i want to be shaded smoothly and modify the shading, it doesnt just shade smoothly the edges i selected but the whole cube

after modifying:

this is what i look for (using auto smooth and marking my edges with sharp):

[Hazelfluff]

this might be the same problem

Meshes with intensely dark circular shadows

Here’s some context into what I think happens: [image] Much like what Veldaren found, it seems like shadows are calculated from the center of the bounding box, not where the mass of the object is greatest. The modifiers or shading don’t affect it. [image] As you can see, the object here has the shadows affecting the scale model at the object’s center more than the scale model underneath the bulk of the object. So your solutions here, unfortunately, are that you can make your mesh smaller…