Transparency Issue

Yelle · Mar 2014

Hi guys, I have a problem. I'm modelling this cube to use as a prop in a game my group is working on. After modelling it from a single plane, I unwrapped it, triangulated it and brought it into Sculptris to test the painting function of Sculptris. However when I brought the model it the faces that I was looking at directly turned transparent (as per the picture below)

This isn't the first time I've encountered this, and I was wondering what went wrong in my modelling process. Any help on this would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Obscura · Mar 2014

You posted this in a wrong section, this should be in the technical talk. Anyways, this isn't a transparency issue, its just the faces got flipped for some reason. You can flip them back in your modeling software.

Yelle · Mar 2014

Obscura wrote: »

You posted this in a wrong section, this should be in the technical talk. Anyways, this isn't a transparency issue, its just the faces got flipped for some reason. You can flip them back in your modeling software.

Ah, I'll see what I can do about the wrong section thing. Also yeah, I thought it might've been flipped faces. Problem is, google hasn't been helping much regarding backfaces and stuff.

Spacey · Mar 2014

I don't use Maya, but you should try these links out:

http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/maya2014/en_us/index.html?url=files/Editing_polygons_Reverse_polygon_normals.htm,topicNumber=d30e163811

http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/maya2014/en_us/index.html?url=files/Display__Polygons.htm,topicNumber=d30e65394

luge · Mar 2014

select the faces, then go up to normals tab and click reverse. oh, you also have to have "Polygons" selected in your drop down to see it.

Cibo · Mar 2014

And with show normals you have a indicator for each face.

Yelle · Mar 2014

Thanks guys. My normals were not all pointing the same way. I made them conform and then reversed them to get them to face the correct side (Outwards) after showing the normals.

Transparency Issue

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