double sided texture on sculpt plane

[Voodoo Schnyder]

Im trying to make a double sided plane object, for grass, i want the grass alpha to be displayed on both sides of the plane, but when i upload it, only one is showing, if SL doesnt support double sided planes, what is the work around? thanks!

[Kwakkelde Kwak]

Most if not all 3d game engines don't support double sided planes, that includes the one SL uses.

The way around it is to make two planes and push them together.

[Voodoo Schnyder]

Do you recommend any method to merge the two planes together? I've tried to stitch isoparms and vertex points but the texture is still readable on only one side, on the other side, I cant control how the UV is readed

[Kwakkelde Kwak]

I know how I would do it, but I don't know if you're talking about sculpts or mesh and Blender or Maya or Lightwave or 3DS Max or ....

If it's mesh you're working with I think in any program you can copy the plane in place and flip the normals. No need to stitch anything, since Sl will break it apart on upload anyway.

btw, since a plane is one sided and the two sided view is merely a trick, UV mapping has got nothing to do with it.

[Voodoo Schnyder]

it's a sculpt, and im using maya. sculpts arent just as flexible as mesh and im having a little trouble because of that.. i made two planes, placed them for both sides but I need to merge them so it'll only take 1 prim in SL. once i merge them (im not sure if im doing that correctly), the texture will only display correctly at one of the sides

[Kwakkelde Kwak]

I'd say make it mesh, but if you insist on using a sculpt, you'll have to fold the plane in two and you'll have a double sided one. You can't merge two sculpts as its geometry is fixed to 4x256, 8x128, 16x64 or 32x32.