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HMS Bounty - Scenery Project - trees?

nigel richards

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Greetings to all :)

I'm posting an update of an on-going scenery project I've had on the burner for some time now.

The scenery is designed as a complementary package to Milton Shupe's awesome HMS Bounty Project released a couple of years ago.

We have a specific thread for the Project over at Simouthouse but I was hoping we could solve an issue we've been experiencing over custom-built scenery tree models.
So as well as a preview of what should be released fairly soon (freeware), perhaps someone would kindly steer us forward concerning what has for me, become a proverbial 'wall-banger'.

Here's an idea of how things are shaping up;


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And HERE is what is causing the headache (S!).

The simple tree models are being made in Gmax. As is obvious in the attachments below, unlike autogen trees, the models are displaying lighted/shaded sides.

I'm obiously missing a tweak somewhere, have gone through endless wikis and threads to no avail, so any kind help here would be most appreciated indeed. :-)

Warm Regards,
Nigel

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The trees are presumably textures on two perpendicular rectangles?
If so, try to clone each rectange, move it a few millimeters away from the other one and flip its normals.
Or try ticking "double sided" in the material properties.
 
Looking great!

In Gmax/Material Editor > Enhanced Parameters, you shall tick "Assume vertical normal". I think that' it.
 
Heretic said:
The trees are presumably textures on two perpendicular rectangles?
If so, try to clone each rectange, move it a few millimeters away from the other one and flip its normals.
Or try ticking "double sided" in the material properties.
Click to expand...

Thanks, Heretic :-) - Basically, that's what I've been doing so far, but I'll willingly give it another bash.
 
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