Texturing Body Objects

[bneu]

Hi,

i got a Problem with texturing a Body Object.
I imported an IGS File to 3d Max Design 2012 and the whole Geometry is
visible in my Viewport and on my render.

If i assign a Material on it...some parts are not visible on render.
They semm to dissapear. I already checked my Workflow an it seems that
IGS seem to be problematic in 3ds Max...

any hints how i can textur that body object?

[Perversonality]

Sounds like some faces have flipped normals which you can fix pretty easily

[bneu]

Indeed...some normals were flipped. I tried to adjust normals by using an modifier to give them all the same direction but it doesnt seem to work.

Of course i can flip the normals by hand and click all of them...is there a simple way to flip them all in the same direction if the modifier does not work?

[BiG ToE-3DT]

try a shell modi, give the out limit.01 or .1.

[paulius-st]

before fliping any normals try detachimng everything as clone and delete the problematic mesh . and then if needed flip normals.

[poopipe]

its probably completely knackered in terms of scale and normals

do the following


reset xform
collapse
turn to poly
collapse
edit normals > select all, average
collapse
turn to poly
collapse

that will sort a mesh out so that everything is scaled at 1 and the normals are all normalised

now youre in a position to start fixing whatever problems are left

[bneu]

Thank you for the answers. Shell Modifier works fine for me atm.