Hello all,

Going trough the “Ultimate Gears” tutorial I encounter a strange phenomena in the render. When I activate the “asume input A is closed” checkbox two small sphere's appear in the render; in the viewport all is fine. If I uncheck that same checkbox they disappear but some normals are inside out.

Any advice?

Thanks a lot, Robert

this is an actual point that gets rendererd. disable point rendering on that specified geometry or delete the points entirely. Doing a Fuse might also help

Oh great, thanks a lot,
The “fuse destroys” the shading but after finding the option to not render points it got solved.

Whats the purpose of rendering unconnected points, is it like a warning?

Thanks a gain, Robert

unconnected points may be particles, and you may want to render particles sometimes

you can as well get rid of unconnected points bu adding Add SOP/Remove Unused Points