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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: 0
Watching: N/A
Opened By DarthVitrial on Sep 27, 2026 11:17 am

Issue #37142: SMDF meshes with extremely broken normals

 
Fixed by facing normals, remove dupe vertices, face again, smooth normals at 60, remove dupes, then face + smooth once more and update tangent spaces. See screenshots.



Attached Files:

smdf fixes.7z
brokennormals.png
betternormals.png
brokennormals2.png
fixednormals2.png
Related Issues: 37143