Artlantis - Need more polygons!

[jamespage11]

What's going on here? I drew some vanities for a bathroom - they're custom profile walls rotated around a very small radius, saved as embedded objects and then set into separate custom profile walls for the counters with a subtraction SEO. They look fine in Archicad, as you can see in the screen shot below, but when I import the model into Artlantis they come out with a ridiculously low number of polygons. Luckily the finish I want is a streaky, thick glaze so I was able to disguise it a little, but it still looks terrible. (Rendered image to follow) Anyone know how to fix this?

[Dwight]

Yes.

Smooth the polygons - Material Dialog.

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[jamespage11]

Krippahl and Dwight, thanks so much! That material smoothness slider is magic! I can't believe how easily it works! And it doesn't even seem to slow render speed down too heavily.

What does the merge vertices function actually do? It doesn't seem to make a difference whether I do it or not, and it gives one of those scary warnings that it can't be undone..

P.S. Dwight I might actually do that. I seem to have hit a bit of a ceiling in improving my renders with Artlantis. They're looking pretty good I'd say, but they're missing a lot of what makes a truly professional looking image, and the Artlantis forum's not really much help once you've grasped the basics of the software..