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Shading both side of a surface 1

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phbalance

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Oct 19, 2005
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Is it my graphics card or just some setting that I'm missing? When I create a surface, only one side is shaded. When I rotate to see the other side, it is transparent. Using NVIDIA Quadro4 900XGL graphics card if that helps any.
 
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In NX2 (other versions should be similar) go to Preferences -> Visualization... and on the Visual tab make sure the Two sided light box is checked.
 
Mine is checked but it is grayed out. my surface is shaded on both sides though.
 
Ok, plan B.

Preferences -> Visualization performance
General settings tab, make sure backface culling is NOT checked.
 
Unchecking backface culling did the trick!

Thanks.
 
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