My Meshes Wont Upload Correctly

[Alt Lexington]

This is what my Mesh build looks like in Blender :--

 

And this is what it looks like in Second Life :--

As you can see there are bits missing after upload to Second Life.

What am I doing wrong, why are there bits lost during upload.

Any advice would be great please.

[Kwakkelde Kwak]

It's very possible you have some flipped normals. Can you see the missing pieces from the opposite side?

[Drongle McMahon]

The other thing that causes missing faces is using more than eight materials. The faces assigned to the extra materials are just omitted.

[Alt Lexington]

Thank You both for replying.

When I rotate the camera around the build in Second Life parts do dissapear like only visible from one angle and not another.

The build isnt textured yet, i just wanted to see if i could upload it first before figuring textures out.

[Kwakkelde Kwak]

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Alt Lexington wrote:

 

When I rotate the camera around the build in Second Life parts do dissapear like only visible from one angle and not another.

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Yes that's normal behaviour, are the parts that show as holes in your picture visible from the other side though?

 

[Alt Lexington]

Yes from what i can see they are visible from the other side.

[Kwakkelde Kwak]

Ok, definitely flipped normals then, you will have to flip them back in Blender before upload.

Here's a tutorial on how to do that:

You can turn on backface culling in Blender to show the 1 sided geometry like SL does:

[Alt Lexington]

Thank you again for your replies, i will bookmark both of those vids so i can learn how to deal with all the missing faces.

Its just a pity the vid says that each face thats missing in second life must be selected in Blender in order to flip them, trouble is they show up just fine in Blender so it'll be quite difficult to find the faces outside of second life.

 

[Kwakkelde Kwak]

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Alt Lexington wrote:

 

Its just a pity the vid says that each face thats missing in second life must be selected in Blender in order to flip them, trouble is they show up just fine in Blender so it'll be quite difficult to find the faces outside of second life.

 

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That's why I posted the second video, that will hide the backside of all faces, making them appear like they will in SL. It's called backface culling.

Do that first, then find the flipped normals.