Can't seem to apply smooth shading

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I’m new to using Python in Blender and have been trying to import a terrain from images. This has gone well so far, but when I try to apply smooth shading it doesn’t seem to show up. See the screenshot, the result of running the script.

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2

Do you need to ‘select’ the object before smoothing?

3

Thanks, that seemed to work, had to look up how to correctly select the object first. Is this the best way?

    ob = bpy.data.objects.get('Terrain')
    ob.select = True
    bpy.context.scene.objects.active = ob    
    bpy.ops.object.shade_smooth()
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if you wanna avoid using an operator and setting an object for this beforehand, you can use:

ob = bpy.data.objects.get('Terrain')
for poly in ob.data.polygons:
    poly.use_smooth = True

Same result.