Flat out of ideas.

[Anna Nova]

I'm making a door in blender 2.78.  It has a curved frame, I made it as a half-half, and then used mirror modifier in x and y to make the final shape.  I have carefully (and over and over) checked that all the verts on the facing side are in the same plane.  Yet when I look at it in blender in Object the face exhibits shading.  If I export it to Aditi, I see this as a shading on the face.  It's most noticeable in the two stiles, and worse in sl.  I can hide it with a dark texture, but I want it light.

What am I doing wrong?

[Pamela Galli]

You can either change the shading to flat, or add edge loops at the top and bottom and sizes.

Edited March 17, 2017 by Pamela Galli

[Anna Nova]

Doh!  I knew that (once).   Now I'm not sure how I ever got it to smooth!

Thanks a heap.

Anna.

[Chic Aeon]

Sometimes after using the mirror modifier (or another modifier) you need to apply location, rotation and scale to get things back to "normal" shading. I don't see that much these days but I remember when I started out it happened OFTEN. Obviously something I was doing then and not doing now.  .

 

You could also use an edge split modifier on the door and that should solve the issue. It may or may not give you a look that you want however.

 

 

[Anna Nova]

Thanks Chic.

I didn't know about the edge-split modifier, and it does seem to do a reasonable job.

I'm meticulous about checking the scale and rotation!

 

Edited March 22, 2017 by anna2358