Soften Normals Node improvements

[mifth]

Hello! I transfer meshes sometimes between Max and Houdini. And I use Soften Normals node for Houdini and TexTools for Max. Hard Edges are created from UVs. And I have found that TextTools does not make a hard edge at Cylinder. But GDTools make it. ( Could you, please, check it?

[lkruel]

Hi I'm not sure I follow the question. You dont want to harden the edges on the seams?

[mifth]

Hi, yes. The hard edge will be not good for normals baking and shading. The hard edge which i selected at the last screenshot. But the Textools plugin does not make the hard edge as you can see at the first screenshot.

[lkruel]

How do you make the distinction between those edges? based on the normal angle as well as the uv shell?

[mifth]

Hi. I did a hack. May be it will be helpful to fix it.

tmp1.zip

[mifth]

If an edge has no splits then it should be smooth. I think something like this