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color faces with wrong normals
While hunting down some wrong-flipped faces I find it a bit tedious to differentiate the color of the wrong-sided face with the right-sided face.
It would be very handy if the wrong-sided faces would ...
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Clear Custom Split Normals Data on all objects
I am cleaning up a large file imported from another program with 500+ objects. All of these objects have Custom split normals that need to be cleared, and then Auto Smooth turned on. I know I can make ...
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Normal Flip Modifier
I have 8 objects sharing the same mesh (linked duplicates) and I want half of them to have their normals flipped, so I am searching for a modifier that flips all the normals on an object before I set ...
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Clear Custom Split Normals Data - Many Objects
I'm struggling with clearing custom split normals data from imported objects. I've found the following script to do it on many objects:
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Export Vertex Normals into Obj File
I would like to export the from Blender calculated vertex normals into an .obj file. I realized that the amount of vertices in the .obj file does not equal the amount of normals (there are more ...
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How to flip normals with python in blender game engine?
Is there a way to flip or change the normal vector of a face using python in the blender game engine?
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Geometry Nodes align
How can I align a Cylinder with the normals of the surface? I want it to be aligned with the points on the surface as well.
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Set normal orientation of origin
I want to change the orientation of my object to a specified direction.
Say I have an axle of a train whose normal orientation is set off by 90° from the global orientation:
The green arrow (Y-axis) ...
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Calculating / Estimating the normal at any location on a face
In a recent answer I employed Object.ray_cast which returns the location and normal of a ray hitting a face. The normal is needed to calculate the rays reflection, ...
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I made a game and I put a skybox or simply box but when I start game the camera isn't displaying it
When I start the game or press P it doesn't display my big brow sky cube.
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is there a way to hide the cut when 2 objects need to appear as one?
I've been trying to find a way to have 2 objects appear as one. For reasons this has to be the case for the game I'm working on. My question is, is there a way to hide the line that appears when you ...
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Fixing normals after separating mesh into new objects
I have small problem, let say I have this mesh:
At the end it needs to be split into separate chunks/objects (in this example it's split in five chunks) like this:
The problem is that normals are ...
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Normals of mesh are super small like a dot, what could have possibly gone wrong?
I've been learning Blender and I've been following some tutorials. I went pretty far with one of them only to realize that my normals seem to be messed up because of the lightning and also my ...
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Snap to face problem: object is flipped 180 degrees and snapped to inside faces
I'm trying to use the snap to face but when I move the object is snapping to the inside faces.
I've checked all the face's normal and there are all aligned correctly. The backface culling is checked. ...
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Why is blender exporting face normals instead of vertex normals?
According to this question: Why OBJ export writes face normals instead of vertex normals
Whether the final obj uses vertex normals or face normals depends on the choice of shading.
However I always ...
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