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jerrylynnb · 19th January 2006, 02:20 PM

Dennis, thanks. The only problem I have doing that is that some of the new trianglss have reversed normals (they are still one-sided, but the non-transparant side is the opposite of all the others). This makes the filled-in hole look like it has smaller holes within - I see when I tumble that these smaller holes are actually just reflective on the other side. The way I selected the vertices (before extruding edges) was to pick each one going in a clockwise direction. I wonder why it would do that. Could I anticipate the "normalcy" of the resulting surfaces somehow in my selection? I can go back and individually select each of the reversed tirangles and flip the normals, but, this is time-consuming. If I could get all the new triangles to have the same normalcy, then that would be better. Thanks for the tip on this, it works like a charm.

19th January 2006, 02:20 PM	#3
jerrylynnb Member Advanced member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 30	reversed normals? Dennis, thanks. The only problem I have doing that is that some of the new trianglss have reversed normals (they are still one-sided, but the non-transparant side is the opposite of all the others). This makes the filled-in hole look like it has smaller holes within - I see when I tumble that these smaller holes are actually just reflective on the other side. The way I selected the vertices (before extruding edges) was to pick each one going in a clockwise direction. I wonder why it would do that. Could I anticipate the "normalcy" of the resulting surfaces somehow in my selection? I can go back and individually select each of the reversed tirangles and flip the normals, but, this is time-consuming. If I could get all the new triangles to have the same normalcy, then that would be better. Thanks for the tip on this, it works like a charm.