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Viper3d
06-06-2003, 06:31 PM
I've noticed this happen a lot... and I've never really thought anything of it. I was viewing a tutorial the other day and they had me remove part of this polygon. When I remove the sides, the insides of the rest of the object are completely transparent, but I noticed on the tutorial, the underside/inside of the object was visible, where none of the inner polygons on my object were visible. Is there a viewport option to see the texture on both the outter and inner sides?

(I had a box... turned it into an editable poly and deleted the sides and bottom... when i rotated to the bottom, the object completely disappeared. I know its there because all I have to do is rotate it back around to the top. The tutorials screenshots showed the underside, however. I'm just wondering how to achieve this)


Thanks for any help.
-Vips
Dave Black
06-06-2003, 06:45 PM
Yes. This feature is called backface culling. You can turn it off(which will make the object viewable on the insides) by right-clicking an object, and selecting properties. Turn off back-face cull on the right side of the dialog in the display section.

Should all work as you'd like now.

-3DZ

:D
Viper3d
06-06-2003, 06:52 PM
You're the man! Thank you very much sir.
Dave Black
06-06-2003, 07:06 PM
You are very welcome, sir!

:beer:

Best of luck!

-3DZ

:D
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