So I'm having an issue where I turn on auto smooth in the data properties of the console and it doesn't do anything with smoothing other than making the button Booleans look smooth. I have changed the values of the auto smoothing and it does not seem to do anything.
I have already recalculated the normals as you see in the gif below.
Here are the modifiers I have active:
Any ideas why this is happening?
(kind of bummed out that this happens at the home stretch of the modeling. :( )
Not entirely sure what's happened,
but my guess is you have 'custom split normals', maybe when recalculating normals you may have pressed merge by accident.
Below the nomals drop down where you enable auto smooth, you will see a Geometry Data dropdown, here you will see three buttons to clear different geo data, they should be greyed out, if the 'Clear Custom Split Normals Data' is not greyed out, the words are white, click this to clear, and your shading should return to normal.
Hope this helps.
I ran into the same issue as well. No idea how, why or when this happened as I was following the tutorial but the fix mentioned worked for me as well -- clearing Custom Split Normals Data.