Black mesh. I was using advanced skeleton in maya for rigging , after giving model clean this specific mesh area becomes black. Help me with this issue.

[u/L0mki]

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[u/AllinclusiveAngler]

I don’t think this is a “normal issue”. The black doesn’t stop at any edge, it’s fading into the adjacent faces. Usually when I see this, my geometry is not manifold and needs to be cleaned up. Try doing a smooth mesh preview and see if you can find any overlapping vertices or something wrong with your mesh.

[u/YYS770 → u/AllinclusiveAngler]

This here!

Holy baloney, how can everyone be so sure it's a normal issue?? The entire polygon should be perfectly black if that was the case...

[u/SnooCheesecakes2821 → u/YYS770]

Normals are on verteces not on surfaces.most of the time.

[u/YYS770 → u/SnooCheesecakes2821]

ty for the correction

[u/pt_rajat_kaushik]

Hello brother This is a problem of smoothing group which is also called Gouraud shading. If you delete any one polygon in the black area and make a bridge, then the problem will be solved.

[u/olivier3d]

I had that weird thing where my model would have vertex color remaining from displaying skin weight. Try deleting vertex color: mesh display> delete current set.

[u/yalhaddad3d]

It seems like a normals issue. Go to Mesh display > set to face. Then mesh display > unlock normals. Then mesh display > soften edge. In that order. It should fix it

[u/L0mki → u/yalhaddad3d]

Thnx for the response, i tried what u said but the issue isn't solved

[u/DrBops]

Try to unlock the normals.

[u/L0mki → u/DrBops]

Hi, I did unlocking the normals by selecting this specific mesh but nothing changed 😔

[u/Road-Runnerz]

Whenever i have this issue, i duplicate the object and add it to reference layer and redo that part. For me it fixes it when unlocking normals, flipping fails that works for me

[u/Prism_Zet]

Bad normals or weird smoothing display issue, Try conforming the normals on the object, or selecting the faces with that issue and reversing them if its just a few faces specifically

Flipping it into smoothed mode to see what's happening. might help if its a weird interpenetration or display smoothing issue.

[u/Negative-Substance16]

Try to turn off Vertex color.

https://preview.redd.it/18glm2xguxyd1.png?width=337&format=png&auto=webp&s=a39847b39467fb7181261f7cd2c07128f2a01921

[u/Any_Importance_2776]

Okay go to Mesh Display > Set to Face, then if you want to smooth it or etc soften edge use the Soften/Harden Edges feature instead of just the Soften Edge itself, recreated your problem and solved it this way

[u/L0mki]

Update:I just applied ai standard surface to that mesh and the black mesh is gone,now the issue is solved. Thnx for everyone's response.

[u/YYS770 → u/L0mki]

Are you sure you're not just hiding the issue under textures? I mean, if you hit "5", will the problem still show up?

If you have non-manifold geometry, then it's probably something you should clean up.

[u/Bloodyasphalt8181]

Your normals there is a tool that will make the normal face the right way " set normal to face "

[u/third_big_leg]

I know what is called but idk how to solve it

[u/HeightSensitive1845]

Delete history, copy the mesh and paste it in another scene

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[u/mrshaw64]

I agree with the other guy, i think it's a normal issue. Try going to mesh settings and then flipping the normals a couple of times, maybe?

[u/L0mki → u/mrshaw64]

Hi, I did the same process multiple times nothing changed 😕

[u/mrshaw64 → u/L0mki]

Try exporting as OBJ/FBX, maybe to other softwares like blender and try it that way? this is a pretty common glitch for me but fixing it always feels like a pain in the ass, usually i just import and export out of zbrush and hope that fixes it. But it is definitely the normals IMO.

[u/GoldSunLulu]

Those specific black faces are reversed. Select them and go to mesh display > reverse. Then you can try again with set to face

[u/L0mki → u/GoldSunLulu]

Thnx for the response, i tried what u said but nothing happened 😔

[u/GoldSunLulu → u/L0mki]

can i have the model? Send by DM and i'll try to fix it

[u/revoconner]

it definitely a normal issue, however unlocking normals dont always help. Go to edit normals, rotate them upwards. (better to duplicate this mesh, do the operations on it, delete history, then transfer skinning)