Oil derrick

Nikademis Von Hisson · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:19 pm Post subject: Oil derrick

I've been messing around with 3d max trying to make an oil derrick. the pic on the left is the start of my project and the one of the right is the rendered. u notice the back supports missing on the rendered view. The oil derrick was a pyramid that I edited. I thought the problem was because I used the pyramid, but you can see the pipe in the middle of the derrick. Is it a camera issue? thats all i need to know for now, not needing more than a yes or no.

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Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

Well, you know how voxels need 2 layers, this is kind of the same scenario. So when you deleted most of the pyramid, the rear parts are backs of facings which like to disappear when rendering. a way to fix this is to "invert the facings" on the parts that are missing. the invert function is either in the editpoly or editmesh, dont remember which.

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Nikademis Von Hisson · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:59 pm Post subject: derrick

Ok, when I come back to making this I'll keep that in mind.....thanks

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Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

Don't change the normals! This leads to nasty results when you want to edit it further and as soon as you rotate the model, you have to edit it again.

A much simpler way is to enable "2-sided" in your material.
Just press m for the material browser, select the material used for the pyramid and there check 2-sided, so the texture is shown/rendered in both normal directions.

Oh and this belongs in the media hut, as this forum is for RA2 editing only and this is just 3d-modeling.

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Nikademis Von Hisson · Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 1:36 am Post subject: oil derrick

sorry LKO, I was on the way out when I posted it.

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