Smoothing advice? Updated

[Bryan K]

Thanks Elesei. I'll try that and post the results in a few days. (I did not download the model, but I very much appreciate you making it available.)

Also thanks to everyone else for their help and advice!

[Bryan K]

Working almost prefect. Except... what the heck is that?

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[ely862me]

See the hidden geometry, most likely an edge snapped.

[ely862me]

There is something. If I recall well, you have there a small segment that creates a small crease throughout the body. If you remove that segment I believe it will be alright.
It doesn't matter how far the sections are it will create the same amount of segmentation.

[Bryan K]

@ely862me said:

See the hidden geometry, most likely an edge snapped.

Thanks Elisei. I did look at the hidden the geometry but I did not see anything obvious.

I think I may have the 2 vertical sections just slightly too far apart. I'm going to try moving them closer together and see what happens.

[Bryan K]

@ely862me said:

There is something. If I recall well, you have there a small segment that creates a small crease throughout the body. If you remove that segment I believe it will be alright.
It doesn't matter how far the sections are it will create the same amount of segmentation.

Cool. I'll check that. It's supposed to be a smooth transition from a curve to straight line. If it's not, then the result would make sense.

[Bryan K]

After much playing around and thanks to everyone's advice, here's what I ended up and pretty much exactly what I wanted.

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[Mike Amos]

I think you will find the remaining 'lines' around the hull are bulkheads, they can be deleted to improve the shape further.

[Bryan K]

@mike amos said:

I think you will find the remaining 'lines' around the hull are bulkheads, they can be deleted to improve the shape further.

Thanks, yes, that's exactly what they are.

[Bryan K]

Here's how the shape is evolving.

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