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# 1 20-01-2004 , 02:51 PM

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I have just loaded a model and it looks like its inside out, should I turn on something in my prefs, well anyway, any help would be great.

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# 2 20-01-2004 , 02:57 PM

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It sounds like you have backface culling turned on and the model's normals are reversed.

You'll need reverse the wayward normals to have them facing outward, if this is the case.

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# 3 20-01-2004 , 03:11 PM

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thats what thought its was, so I turned it off and it has no effect.
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# 4 20-01-2004 , 03:13 PM

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opps!!:p

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# 5 20-01-2004 , 05:12 PM

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That resembles an issue I've had before when dealing with alpha channel transparancy... I think it's just a video card thing. If you open the file and keep it in shaded view instead of hardware texture view, it shouldn't do that, I believe. After going into texture view, though, it "sees" the textures and the transparancy issue comes back, even if you switch to shaded.

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