Introducing SmoothingAngle property for PartOperation (Enabled Globally)

CoolWilgus · May 7, 2020, 9:54am

It looks really good to be honest, it will definitely be useful for a lot of games!

sebi210 · May 7, 2020, 10:05am

Smoother trains incomimg! Thanks a lot for this!

Really! Great job you guys did right here!

ASUS_ROG · May 7, 2020, 10:08am

didnt we always have that? just turn on smooth and edgesplit in blender

Archasion · May 7, 2020, 10:09am

But its nice to see that it was added to studio, makes it useful for those that don’t use blender or don’t know what it is.

Hadiisepic · May 7, 2020, 11:22am

It’s not mine, as I was just using it as a demonstration. I’ve updated it with a work of mine now

Hadiisepic · May 7, 2020, 6:11pm

There seems to be a bug where SmoothingAngle doesn’t work on parts that have been unioned without the feature turned on. I disabled the feature in the first place as I ran into a few errors, which I thought this new feature was causing, but these bugs are now fixed and had apparently nothing to do with it. Ie, i’ve set the SmoothingAngle to 40, but it hasnt actually changed anything.
I can undo this change by going back a bit but its really annoying to find where it changed.

02Alien · May 7, 2020, 6:41pm

having unions randomly disappearing upon saving to a file or the site is extremely frustrating.

Yep. I’d love to use unions more since it’s easier for most of my use cases when making places, since most of my models aren’t really complex enough to justify using Blender, but the union corruption bug is really discouraging.

Hopefully since they’re making updates to unions it means this bug can get some attention and hopefully get fixed.

iGottic · May 7, 2020, 9:26pm

I find this useful for optimizing games.

So here’s how to make unions optimized:

Set SmoothingAngle to 0 (or as low as you want for a good look).
Set RenderFidelity to “Automatic”
Set Transparency and Reflectance to 0 if you can.
Set the collision method to “Box” if possible.

metatablecatmaid · May 7, 2020, 11:11pm

owo now trains dont look low poly

meshadapt · May 8, 2020, 5:14am

Would like to know why some models are not smoothed as expected. Could you provide me a few through private message?

meshadapt · May 8, 2020, 5:19am

This property is designed not scriptable at runtime. But we plan to add a SmoothingAngle parameter in Boolean operation API so it can be part of union itself.

cc567 · May 8, 2020, 6:07am

Consider me satisfied!

MiniCong · May 9, 2020, 1:37am

Time to experience this beauty!

VortexColor · May 9, 2020, 7:30pm

If you wan’t to smooth a mesh part select your blender mesh click shading smooth and reupload the mesh.

yoswanito · May 9, 2020, 11:36pm

This is amazing!

The only thing I see is the shading is a little off, and causes weird issues

smach28 · May 10, 2020, 7:59pm

yah shading has been a problem some have reported

vrs2210 · May 11, 2020, 10:35am

But that’s the reason this update came out… so you don’t have to export and import it.

Tasama · May 11, 2020, 3:40pm

Now if only spheres and cylinders weren’t simplified… Cool update though! I think I’ll be sticking to V1 until V2 is able to give me more precise unions. Also it’s way of handling zero width cuts is odd, I would like it if it chopped off the cuts instead of leaving it and causing me a headache.

Nestiic · May 12, 2020, 10:59am

Awesome! Definitely will be very helpful for a lot of developers.

Programmxr · May 12, 2020, 8:05pm

I can’t wait to use this feature!