Normals Color

Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 2

This course will look in the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. It's aimed at people that have some modeling experience in Maya but are having trouble with complex objects.

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# 1 16-07-2008 , 12:29 AM

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Hey guys, I have been having trouble exporting some files via Collada, and I think I may have found that the problem is with the Normals on my mesh files.

I noticed that one of the trouble maker meshes has YELLOW vertex normals, while all the other meshes have GREEN vertex normals.

What do you think?

Also, I have been having problems with all the normals flipping (and the mesh becoming "black") when I duplicate with -1 X, then freeze transforms. Anyway to get around this?

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# 2 16-07-2008 , 01:38 AM

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normals>reverse does the trick. And I don't get what you mean by normal "color".. do you have a normal map applied? If not, there is no color.

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# 3 16-07-2008 , 01:45 AM

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Well, after doing a bunch of things, including reversing the normals, it seems to work. But I wanted to post a screenshot of the normals "colors" I was talking about.

As you can see, the Vertex normals are yellow on one of the meshes, but green on the other.

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