Fun times with Blender

Leisure Centaur

Been getting up to speed with Blender having been a long time Maya user, now my brain is frying over a seemingly simple problem.

These two trees have the same material, and are both flat shaded, they're also on the same layer. Why the heck do the seem to have different colour tones/lighting on the trunk?

nickw

the polygons in the trunk might be facing the wrong way. blender shades the back of polygons darker.

Catzcratch

inverted normals would be my guess as well
in edit mode and press Ctrl+N to recalculate normals

Leisure Centaur

Yup, that was it, thanks a tonne guys!

I had tried that before but I may have not had the mesh selected, oops

Ta