Problem summary
Area Weighting set to Largest ignores the Hard Edge Tag.
Customer reported version
modo.16.0v1
Customer reported platform
windows10
Steps to reproduce
1) Launch Modo.
2) Create a mesh primitive and assign material to it.
3) Go to Model layout.
4) Go to the Shader Tree and select the base material that you just assigned.
5) In Properties go the Material Ref tab.
6) Set Surface Normal Smoothing Angle over 90 degrees.
7) Go to the Vertex Map tools and set Hard Edge Smoothing angle to 90 degrees.
8) Click on Convert to Hard Edges.
9) Click OK in pop-up box.
10) Go to the Material Ref section of the material properties again.
11) Set Area Weighting to Largest.
12) Observe that the hard edges are not longer being observed.
Expected behaviour
Hard Edges should continue to be observed after setting Area Weighting to Largest.
Actual behaviour
Once Area Weighting is set to largest the Hard Edges are no longer respected.
Workaround
Unknown.
Reproduced by support
This bug has been reproduced in:
16.0v2 - Windows 10 / Mac OS 12
15.2v1 - Windows 10 / Mac OS 12
Earliest version tested
15.2v1 - This feature did not exist before this version