And yet after a year of study, no book will tell me the answer.

I’m watching and following all sorts of modeling tutorials, and admiring how TurboSmooth makes things look nice.
And I wonder what happens when one of these turbosmoothed models is exported to another program like Vue 6 or 7.

Does the smoothing only occur inside of Max? Or does Turbosmooth physically change the mesh so that I can export the model as an obj and it will look just as nice no matter what program I use afterwards?

Thanks

Adjusting smoothing with turbosmooth only occurs in Max. You can export the mesh to other programs, but not the actual Turbosmooth modifier. If you apply a turbosmooth modifier, the export of that object will be the object mesh after turbosmooth is applied, so you will have the more detailed mesh exported.

Windows XP 64-bit
Dual Intel Xeon X5482 3.20GHz
32GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700
Dual 20” Dell LCD monitors.
3ds Max 2009 64-bit
Adobe Creative Suite 2

So the mesh is actually enhanced after export.

Thanks!