2 Sided Polygons

Rogue

Hey, new to posting and 3D but I can't find anything on this (that is if you can even do it.). I want to start doing low poly character with hand painted texture but I want to figure out how to use 2 sided polygons. I have heard it used before but not a lot of info on how to do it. For example, if I wanted to do a character with a cape and have a design on the outside and plain color on the inside and have the cape 1 side polygon. Can you do that?

Also, I am using 3ds max, PS, and Marmoset for rendering.

Is there a place I can find out how to do this?

Thanks

adam

Moving this thread to where it belongs: Technical Talk

Justin Meisse

Select all the faces you want double sided
click "detach"
check on "detach to element" and "detach as clone" - this clones you selected faces and keeps it an element of the same mesh
click "ok"
with your cloned faces still selected click "flip"

you can also use a shader that renders 2 sided polygons but you can't have a unique texture or lighting on the other side so it's best to avoid it.

Rogue

Cool good idea thanks . Will there be any problems with a polygon on top of another? With the quick test I did there wasnt but it was just a quick plane.

DrunkShaman

Nope, There wont be any, the trick is to model stuff out and than detach set of faces. So that you wont have to do any tweeking.