Unity Export Model

[blackheart612]

Hmm, just wanna ask how do you smooth out for example, a blender model in Unity? Because whenever I export a cylinder, the faces are shown and not smoothed out. Thanks in advance.

[Justin Kerbice]

No. AFAIK KSP didn't support "smoothing groups" (or whatever the name is in any 3D program) anyway.

Using 3dsmax, which automatically smooth primitives, I even uncheck the smoothing while or after modelling, doing so, I have a good idea how it'll look in game and decide how many faces I decide to use (I don't think blindly following guidelines about size/faces numbers was a good thing to do).

Hope this help.

[Porkjet]

What format are you exporting? COLLADA .dae seems to work best for me, it properly saves all the edge breaks and shading. Maybe try using that if you havn't.

[blackheart612]

I'm bothered because it's from the game and tried reimporting it with normal maps and it looks different without changing anything.

Edit: It's .dae, yes.

Edited March 12, 2014 by blackheart612

[NoMrBond]

You need to set the shading type (smooth/flat) in Blender before going to Unity

Also I've noticed that in the latest versions of Blender/Unity, you need to set the shading and save while in Object mode or Unity will not accept the .blend (do not save in Edit mode before importing)

Unfortunately this now seems to mean you will need to set>shade smooth for a whole mesh at a time because of Object mode

Maybe you can Object Mode > Set shading for the majority then go back to Edit Mode and set shading for specific selected faces with [space]>Shade Smooth/Flat as required

But mostly, remember to save while in Object mode

Edited March 12, 2014 by NoMrBond

[blackheart612]

Hmm... I'll check that out later and give an update.

[blackheart612]

Hey! That worked! Thank you guys for answering my nooby question. I am new in modeling

[NoMrBond]

That Blender/Unity thing is new with 2.69/4.3.3 (I think it was the Blender upgrade but since I was total reinstalling at the time I can't be sure), it wasn't that fiddly before then and there may have been some* swearing after updating until I worked out the necessary states

*Just a bit

[blackheart612]

lol at least it's working now