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Issue Data
Status: Fix Pending
Issue Type: Bug Report
Project: Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch
Component: Skyrim SE: Vanilla
Category: Meshes
Assigned To: Nobody
Platform: All
Severity: Very Low
Votes: 1
Watching: N/A
Opened By DarthVitrial on Mar 20, 2023 3:33 pm
Last Edited By DarthVitrial on Feb 5, 2024 10:11 pm

Issue #32824: Broken smoothing/normals on shoulders on the USSEP version of Blades armors.

 
Following from our discussion on discord. The USSEP version of the Blades armors has weird broken normals on the shoulders that causes strange zigzags. See screenshots (in both screenshots, left side is Vanilla, right side is USSEP).
To quote ra2phoenix from that discord discussion:
it needs "smooth normals" applied
the problem is the normals got faced
which is necessary if any mesh editing is done, but it makes it triangle-y
if you have tris making any sort of curved surface, facing them will make it geometric-looking
so smoothing bends them slightly so it fakes a smooth curve
sometimes smoothing doesn't work and someone has to manually tweak them which sucks
and then also update tangents any time you touch normals



Might be fixable in nifskope just by doing "Smooth normals" and then "Update all tangent spaces", might need manual mesh editing.



Attached Files:

Armors1.png
Armors2.png

Comments

2 comment(s)
DarthVitrial said:
 
This might fix?



Attached Files:

bladesarmor_0.nif

DarthVitrial said:
 
Forgot the others



Attached Files:

bladesarmor_1.nif
bladesarmorf_0.nif
bladesarmorf_1.nif

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