Lighting problem

[scottmccoll]

I'm having a problem lighting this plant. Below is how it looks in model design mode

And then when I go to render preview it shows some of the leaves as black

Even when I rotate the light 180 degrees the black stays the same.

The leaves are all the same material. I put an all green decal on one leaf and it was also applied to all the other leaves. Even when I get rid of the sunlight and just use environmental light the black still shows up in the render even though I can see the green leaf texture fine in design mode. Any help would be appreciated thanks.

[JeanetteMathews · Accepted solution]

Black objects usually mean there's a problem in the model normals or UVs.  I'd have to see the model itself to tell unfortunately.  You can use the Contact Support button on our Feedback portal to submit a 1-1 ticket with attachments.  Or you can attach here as a share d link to CC Files, Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.

Adobe Dimension CC Feedback Portal for submiting private request.

[scottmccoll]

test5.dn - Google Drive

here is the link to the file, thanks

[JeanetteMathews]

Oops, sorry.  I need the .obj file you imported, not the .dn scene.  We don't have an export option in Dimension yet, so can't extract the .obj.

[scottmccoll]

here you go, thanks again

1.obj - Google Drive

[scottr12917177]

Hi there,

Just checking to see if you were able to resolve the back faces rending black? I am trying to render some t-shirt models and it appears the back faces are not rendering, and I don't see an option to render back faces?

I did a test, exporting a cylinder from Maya without the end cap, and that is also not rendering back faces.

Scott

[JeanetteMathews]

No, at this time Dimension can't render back faces, this is just a technical limitation and we'll look at fixing that.