NietzscheWasRight

OMG I think this is actually resolved now!

Thanks; that was really useful info.

Ah, smoothing the normals and exporting them out with the model. Now I understand; thanks.

Thanks; that is very good to know.

SL automatically generates the LoD meshes anyway, doesn't it?

Oh I see; smooth it in blender. I thought we were talking about some magical thing in the SL upload panel. When you say auto smooth, do you mean with a modifier? The modifier will be applied when the model is exported, giving a high vertex count anyway?

What do you mean by "use SMOOTH"?

Yes, I wanted to make a really tiny padlock for some jewellery. I didn't know there is a minimum size for mesh. It turns out I can actually make a much smaller object of the same shape from an ordinary SL torus with path cut and hole size changed. Thanks.

I am trying to upload a simple mesh that's just a bent cylinder, but when I rezz it, it becomes stretched in one direction. It appears fine in the preview window. Does anyone know what's going on?