Textures With Random Shadowing?

[MrGoostoff]

I'm working on my first mod for Fallout 3. I've got my mesh, and I'm still refining the texture, but I decided to put the texture on my mesh to see how it's looking so far, and there's a problem.

 

There are "gill-shaped" shadows on a smooth surface. Any idea how I can solve this? I posted this on the Blender forums and someone suggested that I recalculate all normals outside, but it didn't work. No one else posted on it, so I thought I'd bring the question here.

 

SOLUTION

The problem has been solved. The surface was largely comprised of triangles. I deleted the triangles, and filled in the space with with rectangles. I re-mapped the UV Map, and the shadows were gone. Whether the problem was solved due to the rectangles, or it just didn't map properly the first time, I don't know, but that is how I solved the problem.

[MrGoostoff]

UPDATE: I removed the added-on texture, and the white texture model still has the shadows =\ So I guess it has something to do with the mesh and not the texture.

[BadPenney]

I know it isn't what you intended and that is frustrating, but I think that it looks kind of wicked cool anyway. Sort of evil dead looking.

[Ghogiel]

its quite usual for 3d programs will give you similar smoothing errors to let you know you have either duplicated faces or verts. or some such mesh error.

[MrGoostoff]

Problem has been figured out, thread closed.

[opravdu]

Problem has been figured out, thread closed.

 

Could you post the solution, if you can? You never know when someone uses the search feature for a similar problem, founds the thread, but no solution is in the thread.