Making a Waterbox

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  By Chris Brown January 9, 2009 - 5:14 pm

  Regarding Settings; How do I set 3ds max 2009 to make the box see through. In the video when you flip the polygons you can see inside the box. When I flip polygons the I cant see inside. As a result it is very difficult to do anything you do in the video. Please email me with how to set it up properly.

  Thanks Chris Brown

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  By Bluesummers January 9, 2009 - 8:38 pm

  Hey Chris!

  Thanks for posting. The way you’d fix this is by going into your graphics settings and changing it to “Backface cull on object creation”. It’s under Customize>Preferences, in the “Viewport” tab on the left side of the window. This tells your viewports to not draw polygons that are facing away from the camera.

  You’ll even get a performance boost! ^_^

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  By Chris Brown January 10, 2009 - 10:57 am

  This actually did not work. I don’t know if it is because I have other settings wrong or if I am flipping the polygons the wrong way. I don’t know a keyboard shortcut for flipping polygons. When I try to flip I convert to editable poly, add the skylight, then I select the whole thing and on the right I click the Flip button under edit polygon. I think this is what I am doing wrong.

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  By Bluesummers January 10, 2009 - 11:56 am

  If you’ve enabled backface culling (you’ll need to create a /new/ waterbox once this is done), and you’ve tried flipping the polygons, there’s not much left I can think of.

  In the worst case scenario, you can apply a 2-sided standard material to the whole mess and just delete the polygon hiding the watery part of the box. 😛

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  By Arsh August 4, 2011 - 2:31 pm

  i am speacialy thanks for all tutorials. thanks for this.. very very thanks’

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  By Mr. Bluesummers August 9, 2011 - 5:14 am

  Thanks for reading! 🙂

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