quick, dumb alpha question....

fritz

is there some way to have an alpha plane render both sides in viewport? front is fine...when i rotate around you can't see it.

max 8
J.I. style skin shader

thanks!!

Sage

Well the quick and dirty way I would do it would be to shift click on the plane and flip the normals while in face subobject. You can try and use a two sided material but I suspect it won't work. Make sure not to weld the verts cause it would mess up the smoothing group.

Hope it works, cause I have not tried this with a normal mapped alpha plane and I suspect you are using them, if not it should work fine.

Alex

Guriamo

Just turn on Backface Culling in the object properties...

fritz

turning on backface culling doesn't work for me. i thought this was always a prob w/alpha sorting in max, and was wondering if it was ever solved.

i can try your quick and dirty way Sage...things may get little bit nasty tho.

thanks for chimin in guys.

anyone else?

EarthQuake

If you're using normals on the material its best to duplicated and flip anyway, otherwise one side will get lit incorrectly.

edit: actually anytime you do this it will get lit incorreclty on one side, just with normals its usally more apparent.

cw

if you're using a directx shader (i may have misunderstood but I think you might be?) the shader will have to be set to draw backfaces (not cull backfaces)

either way EQ+sage are right, better to dupe+flip the geometry manually so the lighting will be nearer to correct.

just my 2p worth.