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| Ted Town |
| I've got a plane, with a texture on it, and id like to see that on both sides of the plane. How can I do it? |
| Shawn |
| Well so tou want to see your texture in the reder or you want to see 2 sided in the viewport? |
| Ted Town |
| 2 sided in the viewport. I'm following a tutorial which mentions 2 ways to do that, but none have worked |
| Shawn |
| if I'm correct its not so easy to setup up 2 sided with direct x use open gl |
| Ted Town |
| how do i use open gl or direct x |
| Shawn |
| preferences...viewport driver something like that |
| Ted Town |
| I've cheked. It says direct x 9. And I've cheked 2 sided on my material. |
| Shawn |
| But the 2 sided in the mat editor is not the 2 sided for the viewport |
| Ted Town |
| oh ok, so what should i do? |
| Shawn |
| right click on the viewport name a menu pops up then options/preferences(?) somewhere is 2 sided |
| Ted Town |
| i've tried checking that box, it doesnt change it |
| Shawn |
| but as i said i dont think it will work with direct x |
| Ted Town |
| i see thats bizarre, why wouldn't it? |
| Shawn |
| not sure im always using open gl dx is faster but i dont have 2 sided :P |
| Ted Town |
| but it doesnt say in that options thing that i can change to open gl this is ridiculous how can it not work i was messing with max shapes earlier and all kinds of funky stuff was happening, with nurms smoothing or something and now i find that direct x can't put a picture on 2 sides of a plane? is that what youre saying? where's open GL found then? |
| Reid6754 |
| You can make 2 planes, each facing oposite directions. |
| Shawn |
| customize--preferences--viewports--choose driver u can change it to open gl and u have to restart max |
| Ted Town |
| great, i saw the option ill see if it works does direct x seriously not do that ? |
| Shawn |
| well i think you have to turn on or off another option for dx to get 2 sided but not sure what it was |
| Ted Town |
| is there any disadvantage to using open GL and not direct x? |
| Shawn |
| well open gl works with 2 sided and some other things...direct X is faster and u can see realtime shaders with it like bump mapping, normal mapping etc |
| indico |
| for the record , OpenGL is also slightly less stable than DX as it is dependant on the OpenGL implementation of the graphics card. |
| UVlas |
| wouldnt DX be dependent on the DX support of the gfx card too ? |
| Shawn |
| less stable than dx ?!?!? |
| sperll |
| they both are dependant on the gfx card its just that Directx seems to be able to survive a little better with the lower end / less supportive directX cards then OGL does for the similar situations w/ OGL supported gfx cards I wish OGL would pickup the pace and run directX out the window though |
| Shawn |
| never not in max i have a 5750xt and if i use direct x with max, it sucks with realtime shaders open gl works much better with max imho |
| PolyGru |
| that actually depends on what type of screen adapter you have the general perception seems to be that ati runs better with d3d, and nvida better on opengl i've had both, and i had to switch depending on which i had |
| Shawn |
| maybe...never used/had ati thats mabye a reason why 3d guys usually use nvidia and not ati |
| PolyGru |
| im actually more satisfied with ati than nvidia, but that might because I allways had low end nvidia and high end ati |
| Shawn |
| hmm ati is for gamers |
| Gloski |
| not so sure it's all that simple Shawn but then again I've had very small amounts of experiense with nvidia and CGI |
