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I'm pretty new to blender so currently I'm in a pickle. When I first finished the model and had the arm attached I noticed that when I shaded it smooth it didn't look right. I figured I attached it wrong and deleted the arm and attached an exact replica of the left arm to the body. The problem seemed to persist and it seemed to also effect the texture, despite the arm being joined with the body and UV editing showing it clearly as part of the mesh. I colored it to show some of the problem, the whole texture paint is purple except the arm. enter image description here

I have done some research but without exactly knowing what's wrong with, whatever I did wrong, it's difficult to find answers. If it helps anymore I have the version that was shaded smooth, adding subdivision surfaces doesn't help. It seems to be separated even though it is joined to the body, the other arm is fine.enter image description here

Help would be very much appreciated!

Lunatic277
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  • What you show in the second picture looks like inverted normals, switch to Edit mode, select all and press Shift N to fix it – moonboots Jan 05 '24 at 19:44
  • I think Shift+N is the old shortcut that is used in Blender 2.79. In Blender 2.8+ press Alt+N to open the Normals menu. Or use the viewport's menu Mesh > Normals > ... -- You can use an overlay to check the normals. Have a look here: https://blender.stackexchange.com/a/216140/107598 – Blunder Jan 05 '24 at 20:34
  • @Blunder Shift-N is indeed used to recalculate normals right up to and including 4.02. As you say Alt-N gives you more options to recalculate Outside, Inside and Flip, etc. – John Eason Jan 05 '24 at 23:20
  • @Blunder Don't know if there was a problem with 3.5.1 which is out of date now. 3.6.5 is the current LTS version and 4.02 the latest. It certainly works in Edit mode in 3.6.5. Mesh > Normals > Recalculate Outside shows Shift N as the shortcut on the menu here. – John Eason Jan 06 '24 at 17:41

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