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soft selection weirdness About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. soft selection weirdness // Tech Forum 1  |   Order by default Post by jayr // Aug 21, 2008, 7:51am jayr Total Posts: 1074 Anyone know whats causing this?: http://www.lothissen.co.uk/strange.jpg I've selected an area with the soft-selection tools, pulled it upwards and then flattened it but i've been left with that transparant mess around the edges of the object. I've tried a few times to do this without getting that weird 'transparent' area on the plane but it always seem to happen when i render it with vray. Rendered with lightworks it's ok. Post by TomG // Aug 21, 2008, 7:53am TomG Total Posts: 3397 Planes are often odd beasts. What happens if you use a cube instead, doing this on the top face? Do you get the same results, or does it remain solid as you'd want? I am guessing this is a normals and single / double sided issue, which the cube should cure if so, but testing would be good to see. Thanks! Tom Post by jayr // Aug 21, 2008, 7:59am jayr Total Posts: 1074 That was fast Tom, thanks! I followed the same procedure with a cube but i quad devided the top to get the resolution i needed. it worked fine, no transparency. However, i tried it with both single and double sided planes and the transparency occured with both. I tried re-faceting the normals before rendering but it made no difference, they must be fliped somehow when you do this. Post by TomG // Aug 21, 2008, 9:50am TomG Total Posts: 3397 I'll report it and see what makes it happen. Meantime I hope the cube will let you achieve what you need to do? BTW what happens if you make the surface using the cube, then delete the other 5 faces, effectively leaving only a plane - does the problem appear when that happens, or does the resulting plane actually "work"? Thanks! Tom

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