double sided faces shading trouble (Maya)

Kyuzo

Hi, here are the problem:

Flower on concept have different color scheme on each face of leaf, so i tried to model it different ways and come to this

create 1 face, place it on UV, add divisions, deform, duplicate, reverse normals, merge vertices.
Looks good but.. hard edges, while trying to to set inner edges to soft, shading going crazy:



How to model it right?
predeform it, and then don't merge inner vertices?


i tried to make deformable doublesided plane and failed ;(

gsokol

Don't merge the 2 sides together. There is no difference in performance if those verts aren't welded...since a renderer will split those verts anyways since there is a hard edge. Keep them seperate, and if you still get this issue, pull the underside faces away just a little bit.

Kyuzo

oh, thank you

MeintevdS

And I see you're using alpha on your textures, make sure you move the verts as close to your (visible) texture as possible, that way it's more performance friendly when you put down a ton of plants.