Shader Smooth button? Toggle or ??

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Hi All,
Thanks for looking in. The Shader Smoother button when modeling. Is that a toggle switch, or once hit is all I get and to get a better look I must crank up my Preview Render value?

I cannot see a real diff once hit and going back and hitting it again. Almost as though once hit it is set and that is that.
Thanks
NC

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It’s not a toggle. ‘Shading: Flat’ cancels ‘Shading: Smooth’.

Best wishes,
Matthew

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So I understand this… Shader smooth is ON, if I hit Shader Flat it is OFF? Either on or off then?
Thanks

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Effectively. In Edit mode you can choose smooth or flat for each face individually; in Object mode whatever you choose will be applied to the whole mesh. If you want to smooth on an edge-by-edge basis instead of face-by-face, you need to have smooth shading on and then use an Edge Spit modifier (possibly combined with Mark Sharp for greater control).

Best wishes,
Matthew

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Actually you are right, no reason it shouldn’t be a toggle, but that’s just not how it’s programmed, making shortcuts for it is a little unintuitive too.

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How about a shortcut to do these 3 things at once:

  1. Remove doubles
  2. Recalc normals
  3. Set shading to smooth

And while we’re at it it also flashes non-quads red for 1 second.
And if everything is ok, it displays a message that ‘Your model is awesome!’

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Seems a simple enough script to write:evilgrin:! At the very least though these things should all be in their own tab, not distributed throughout the interface. I’ve done that… but it should be default.

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Thanks you guys appreciate the input… And I really like the idea of “compliments as you move through stages of your model” haha.

@mcollett, Good to know about selecting faces or whatever and being able to flat or smooth.
Thanks