Hexagon tessellation options ?

Luftsturmregiment40

is there another way to tessellate? because I get nowhere with Catmull-Clark and it looks ugly

 

Ascania

Smoothing in the Surface Modelling tab. And what do you consider ugly there?

ShawnDriscoll

seegsons said:

is there another way to tessellate? because I get nowhere with Catmull-Clark and it looks ugly

 

The chamfer algorithm is not as nice as the Catmull-Clark algorithm, unfortunately. It's hard to get good reflective surfaces without noise from chamfering.

Luftsturmregiment40

Ascania said:

Smoothing in the Surface Modelling tab. And what do you consider ugly there?

apart from the limitations, I would like to be able to straighten the edges in a way so that they remain as paralel as possible (I'm not sure if retopo can do that in another program like Modo)

the reason is I have a mesh where I need to extrude the faces all around as shown in the screenshot but they are not paralel 

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QUOTE: The chamfer algorithm is not as nice as the Catmull-Clark algorithm, unfortunately. It's hard to get good reflective surfaces without noise from chamfering.

yep, another issue that drives me against the seiling - on a side note this is not a problem in Blender or at least I never had an issue in Blender but I still don't like Blender modeling workflow and prefer Hexagon

 

would be nice if someone comes up with an idea because I have no idea what to do

Ascania

The tesselation is more concerned with staying faithful to the geometry and maths of the operation than to look good to the user.

 

Try instead slicing your chamfered object and then retopo it along those slices. Takes more work but that's the best Hex can do.