Maya Help Needed, please respond

[xenoxr]

hey,
for the past 1 and a half hours i have been modeling and creating textures for a street light, i got it looking pretty cool in the mayas general grid area, however when i got to render the model it goes all mashed and messed up, someone please help , i need to use this in a college assignment

[Dustpan_one]

Hey, did you scuplt that in smooth mode? (3 mode) If you did, your render will most likely look messed up like that everytime until you Convert it. To do this first select the geometry you want to convert, then go up to Modify in your menu bar click that drop down menu, then mouse over Convert. (in Maya 2008 this one is 4th up from the bottom) A menu should drop down and then just click on " Smooth Mesh Preview to Polygons". It should be the 4th one down from the top. See if that works and let me know.