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    Model faces look weird

    creig
    posted to: Filling in the Outline

    Hello,

    I have been trying to follow your tutorial and have run into an issue while modeling. In the video whenever a new face is added by pressing F it is nice and smooth but for my model, the faces are getting messed up. 

    I also checked the face select mode to make sure that it wasn't making multiple faces like when pressing alt F.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Reply
    • spikeyxxx replied

      That looks like some of your Normals are 'flipped'.

      Select all (press A) in Edit Mode and then SHIFT+N to re-calculate the Normals.

      While you're at it, make sure that those top Faces are flat, I mean that they look like a line, when viewed from the side orthographic. So not like this (exagerated):

    • Vue Thao(euv) replied

      You may want to turn on Face Orientation under Geometry so you can see if the planes are not in the correct position.
      Red: Inside (incorrect)
      Blue: Outside (correct)

      Like spikeyxxx  mentioned how to press SHIFT + N to recalculate normals. 

    • spikeyxxx replied

      And just in case you were wondering how that happened; the way Faces are filed in, has to do with the order/indices of the Vertices:

      So not something you did wrong :)

    • c
      creig replied

      Hey guys thank you so much for the help I was freaking out, I made sure to check all of the normals and it turned out two of them had been messed up, but I also had shade smooth on which was causing those faces to look weird. Everything is looking good now thank you once again.

    • Vue Thao(euv) replied

      Thanks goodness. I see you had it resolved. Be sure you need to turn on "auto smooth" after "shade smooth", that way you don't see weird shading.