Glitch in 3ds max 7

Biovore · Dec 2005

For some reason "Force two-sided" does not work at all. Is anyone else having this problem? I'm very new at max so there may be something I'm doing wrong.

thomasp · Dec 2005

the 2-sided materials check-mark in the mateditor? that one doesn't work in direct3d viewports but for example if you set your display driver to open-gl.

Biovore · Dec 2005

No not in the material editor...when you right click on the viewport text, and go to configure. There's a box in there with the option Force two-sided. This makes it show flipped normals. However when I check the box, it does nothing. It use to work back in 3ds max 6, but not in 7.

pior · Dec 2005

Maybe try to untick 'backface cull' in the display tab?

Eric Chadwick · Dec 2005

Direct3D display driver ignores that flag. You have to do as pior suggests. D3D also ignores the 2-sided flag in a material.

Biovore · Dec 2005

I have a quick and simple question, and I didn't want to create a new thread for it because I didn't think it was necessary. I've been fooling around with 3ds max 7 and testing what everything does, and I accidentally screwed something up. Whenever I use the rotate tool, everything in the viewport disappears and only their bounding boxes are shown. When I stop rotating however, they re-appear. This is extremely annoying. A quick reply to this is greatly appreciated.

Slipstream · Dec 2005

Hit the letter "O" on your keyboard and that'll set it straight

Biovore · Dec 2005

Ah! Thank you!

Glitch in 3ds max 7

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