Blocky lightning effects on smoothed model in Object mode (2.79b)

[ryiajunh]

Hello, I am getting some blocky lightning effects on my smoothed model in Blender when I look at it in Object mode. I am following a tutorial on how to create a Lego-looking character that will be imported in Unity and I want to make sure that the final result will be good.

I am using smooth shade and auto smooth set at 78.6 degrees.

You can see vertical and diagonal light lines on the cylinder shape.

[mrgesy]

Can you show the wireframe? Your object might just be too low poly to get smooth normals. Add some horizontal loop cuts near the ends to fix it

[ryiajunh]

Here is the wireframe.

Perspective:

[ryiajunh]

Front Orthographic:

[ryiajunh]

I later created the same model in Blender 2.8 beta and it seems to look a little better but I do not know why. Picture from 2.8: