A quick box model this morning in #blender3d! Anyone recognise the shape?
It needs to be as low poly as possible (for #VR), and the circles do look a bit blocky. I was thinking of creating a high resolution version, baking the normals, and using these for the blocky version.
@elizabethtasker have you checked the "auto-smooth" parameter (in object menu) ? it should render those curved surfaces with smoothness while preserving the borders sharp
@elizabethtasker
ha yes in 4.1 it's "shade smooth by angle" in the object menu, and normally (!) you don't have to export the normal map, it should keep that info in the normals (when applied if as modifier)
@elizabethtasker you're welcome
the normals of the objects also include info of smoothing, so for basic things no need for a additional normal map, which is used to add additional details at the level of the texels (texture pixels) so you can have a low poly object with high details "faked"
@olm_e Interesting! I did not realise that anything that wasn't obviously part of the mesh would be reflected in the normal, without the use of a normal map.
I've just checked the result in VR and works brilliantly: looks a whole lot better. Thanks so much again!
That looks vaguely similar to the locking mechanism for the main hatch on an Apollo Command Module.
8- )
( I learned about this via a poly-collaborative effort to reproduce the hatch from CAD files, led by Adam Savage's "Tested" series, 4-5 years ago in honor of the 50th anniversary of the 1sr moon landing. :- )
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