Help With Transparency
by Jared Kidd · in Artist Corner · 01/18/2010 (2:01 am) · 4 replies
how do i get these lights to be visible on both sides please help and thank you
this side is fine and i want the other side to look like this too
this is the other side that i want to fix
please help and thanks
this side is fine and i want the other side to look like this too
this is the other side that i want to fix
please help and thanks
About the author
i'm 16 and i really enjoy making games and testing them. i started making games when i was 11 using game maker, but then i started using torque when i was about 13 and now i fell in love with game designing and look forward to making a career out of it.
#2
To make both sides, you should duplicate your face in your 3D editor and somewhere in your options (no idea where...) should be an option to reverse the direction of the faces. If you do that to the copied faces, then it will display on the opposite side to the first faces. The only truly tricky part might be creating a decent texture on the opposite side that does not look awkward when the player views the opposite side.
Hope that helps.
01/18/2010 (2:39 am)
Well, the problem with this would most likely be that the shape you created was a single, flat plane of few faces, right? In some 3D modeling programs, a face is only visible from one side. This does not create a problem for closed shapes, but for flat shape, like your lights, the engine will only render one side. To make both sides, you should duplicate your face in your 3D editor and somewhere in your options (no idea where...) should be an option to reverse the direction of the faces. If you do that to the copied faces, then it will display on the opposite side to the first faces. The only truly tricky part might be creating a decent texture on the opposite side that does not look awkward when the player views the opposite side.
Hope that helps.
#3
01/18/2010 (3:10 am)
thank you guys both so much i duplicated the flat plane and reversed it like you said so it would show on both sides but it works like a charm lol thanks to both of you for the help :) 
#4
01/18/2010 (7:47 pm)
Glad to help. Your game looks... delicious. 
Torque 3D Owner Daniel Balmert
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Not sure what program you're using, but right now it's one sided. Making it double sided will double the poly count of any object, so don't go around making EVERYTHING double sided.