Flipping vertex normals

[l-titre]

Is there a way in maya 4 to reverse the normals on a single vertex?

The current method requires that whole faces sharing the vertex be selected and reset the face normals. However it effects the entire poly surface.

There's got to be a better way?
Thanks all

Lisette

[wcy93]

what does flipping a vertex normal do???

[jeffd]

It will effect the lighting of that vertex.

This can be done by hand using Set Vertex Normal. Pretty tedious if you have a lot to do.

If you know any MEL, it would probably be fairly simple to create a script that could do this for you - also easy to process a collection of verts.

--JeffD

Edited by JeffD on 09/27/01 11:25:22 AM.