Sharp edges
 

Look at the "O" in this object and look at how the edges is nice and round.
If you look at the "T" and the "S's" the edges have funny shadows and don't line up right.
How can I make a perfect bevel like the "O" object?

Thanks

looks like you have a corner problem, which won't happen on 0's, no corners. Can you post a wire closeup like you did the letters?

You can subpatch the letters and run a bandsaw along the side close to the edge like .5%-2%. Adjust the closeness of the bandsaw to the edge for how round you would like it to be.

To basicly show you what I mean, Here is the basic concept that i want to do.
Please tell me how to fix this problem.
Thanks

Ok the problem is you cannot subpatch a polygon if it isnt 3 or 4 sides. Fill in the gaps by manualy selecting 3 or 4 points and hitting p to make poly. Try first to make all 4 point polygons to fill in the gap. That large polygon in the center just get rid of it and make all 3-4 point polygons to fill it in nicely.

This may be of some help , its about merging faces with a subpatches. Click here

I had talked to Claudio on the phone about this picture that sake just posted. That is great thank you sake very much for know how to make that look really nice. Johnny9ball your idea was helpful to. I will have to let claudio know he has some answers to his questions. you helped me out as well!
thanks
-Jonn

sake, could you please help with this. Following the tut you posted this is what i got. what the heck am I doing wrong?

Please help
Thanks

I figured it out. this is What i did. I hope claudio will find this helpful!

I hate useing the text tool for making sub-d stuff...well...I hate using sub-d in general but whatever lol...

the front planes must be a quad or tri for sub-d to be active...so you can make the text, triple it, then merge as many tris as possible (no more than two tris).

I just used the extrude and bandsaw tool for this pos:

If you realy hate sub-d you could use the new LW 8 Rounder tool 8-)

oOoOo!

Too bad I have LW7.5. :-/

Sod
How did you get the Rounder tool to make it the s look like that... would you mind posting a picture of your presets on that how anything else i might need to know... THanks

Sure:

1. Text (SHIFT + W) Options: Sharp
2. Select the letters and Extender Plus + move or Smooth Shift + move the text, do it how you like it ^^
3. Select the main Poligon (don't the new extended) of "one" letter. Rounder crashes if you wanna round them all at once.
4. Click the rounder button. Numeric Panel -> Actions / Activate:

Just play with the values. As long as lightwave doesn't crash you can't do much wrong ^^