Ngons Shading Issue

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Hi all,

I am trying to follow this guy’s tutorial on making a pistol:

However even though I do the same thing he does, shading on mine looks different. I also enabled auto smooth 60 degrees and made sharp edges but it doesn’t look the same.

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How this guy’s pistol is looking flawless in terms of shading despite the ngons? What am I missing?

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Wireframe screenshot pls. Now I think you put in there tooo much geometry. Keep your poly-count as low as possible.

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Here the geometry is pretty low also the surface is flat and auto smooth enabled. Why shading looks bad?

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This is wireframe

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Try the wieghted normal modifier.

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GPU-card ALWAYS triangulate geometry. Even if you have n-gon in Blender\3DSMax\Maya ect it does not matter. This is not “bad” - this is how it is. You see on you screen two things:

  1. How your geometry auto-triangulated to view in OpenGL-display
  2. You need to learn how to control normals in n-gons (on flat furfaces! - check this first, because in sub-d modeling this is always bad to have non-quads on non-flat surfaces)