Mesh normals are always wrong way around (object is transparent from outside).

[Mongrove Goldblatt]

So I created a static mesh in Blender. I tried to upload and in the preview as well as in local rez it was transparent on the outside. I thought that was a problem with the normals so i flipped them in Blender and tried to upload again, but the preview again showed the mesh transparent. Then in Blender I selected show face orientation and the whole mesh was blue on outside and red inside ... so I deleted the previous export and exported again but in upload preview it still was transparent from outside. So I thought maybe firestorm is somehow cashing my upload so I relogged and it is still inside out... I don't understand what I am doing wrong...

Edited November 6, 2023 by Mongrove Goldblatt

[Fionalein]

maybe Havoc acting up, try uploading with manual LOD models in betagrid

Might also be inventory server is doing some stupid caching stuff, ...

Edited November 6, 2023 by Fionalein

[Mongrove Goldblatt]

Yes I was on beta grid... I will try again tomorrow maybe the cache is cleared then.

[arton Rotaru]

2 hours ago, Mongrove Goldblatt said:

So I created a static mesh in Blender. I tried to upload and in the preview as well as in local rez it was transparent on the outside. I thought that was a problem with the normals so i flipped them in Blender and tried to upload again, but the preview again showed the mesh transparent. Then in Blender I selected show face orientation and the whole mesh was blue on outside and red inside ... so I deleted the previous export and exported again but in upload preview it still was transparent from outside. So I thought maybe firestorm is somehow cashing my upload so I relogged and it is still inside out... I don't understand what I am doing wrong...

Could be that your mesh has negative scaling. Always Apply Rotation & Scale to the mesh in Blender before exporting.

[Mongrove Goldblatt]

21 hours ago, arton Rotaru said:

Could be that your mesh has negative scaling. Always Apply Rotation & Scale to the mesh in Blender before exporting.

That was it, thanks! :3

 

[Chic Aeon]

6 hours ago, Mongrove Goldblatt said:

That was it, thanks! :3

 

Over a decade ago one of the folk on the VERY ACTIVE THEN mesh board told me that I should always apply, location= rotation=scale and transform origin to geometry (this maybe for standard things like furniture and houses).  I started doing that religiously every time and it has saved me so many worries and work.   Folks reading this might want to make a "sticky note" or some such thing. Worth the few seconds it takes each time. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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