Normal Smoothing Python Script

Bart · November 29, 2007

Macouno has published a script to smoooooth your Blender objects. He writes:

This script is an alternative to the mesh smooth function in blender. The mesh smooth function in blender uses only vertex position. This script uses vertex normals, which is why it’s called normal smoothing.

Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.

11 responses

ZanQdo

29 November 2007 at 10:20

way to go maco1 !!

Mats Halldin

29 November 2007 at 11:12

Wow! I hope this will be made the default smooth tool within soon.

Thanks for sharing.
/ Mats

RNS

29 November 2007 at 16:08

Nice to have in blender,but I rather wait for official release.

Virgilio

29 November 2007 at 16:15

This is very useful! =) Thanks a lot, Macouno

Tynach

30 November 2007 at 00:04

RNS, what do you mean? This is a python script, like a plug-in. It may never be in an official release. Few python scripts are.

DramaKing

30 November 2007 at 05:51

Normal smoothing? Sounds like a big improvement. A hearty thanks to Macouno, and I hope that this will be integrated into an official release.

eonmach

30 November 2007 at 05:54

ThatÂ´s a good way to use scripting…very handy indeed, one another way to keep meshes smooth and nice, is the use of the smooth bush in the sculpt mode…the standard smooth in edit mode is handy but lacks a little more options (thus the creation of this script) -but- should not be replaced by the normal smoothing,instead of it just add another mode. You know, the are modelling cases that you donÂ´t need perfect normal smoothing but just a little less sharp edges…just more options to choose from :)

By the way, I envy your scripting talent…kudos to you!!!

macouno

30 November 2007 at 10:10

Hey folks.

Thanks.. it’s always nice to see something is not just usefull to myself. As you can see on the page it does have a few small issues that I simply haven’t been able to solve yet. Unless those are solved, I don’t think it’ll ever be integrated by a C coder in blender. But if they are… we might be able to make someone enthusiastic enough.

BTW: I released two other scripts at the same time as this one. They got less attention, but I’ve actually used them more than the smoothing one. They’re called, Inset, and Project Cursor. They can be found on the same website.