The model is a house I made in Blender and it isn’t yet properly optimized and triangulated, but all other faces are fine.
Like I said in the title, all faces pointing X- look strange, weird, like a different colour in my mesh. I have double checked materials and that doesn’t seem to be the problem.
That’s how it looks, the material is the same as in the other walls. I have made a lightmap UV but have not finished making the material UV. I also tried removing the SkyLight, ended up with these walls being pitch black.
I already tried changing Environment Color setting but I am having the same problem. Even if I rotate the model, the faces stay the same. But this does not happen in other models I’ve imported. I’m attaching a zip with the blend file and the fbx file.
After some investigation and pulling from various resources, I was able to determine what I believe is the source of your problem. The face orientation for half of your mesh is flipped while the other half is correct. In order to visualize what I mean have a look at the image below.
I also imported your mesh into the engine to see if there was a problem occurring there as well. I was able to get some clean lighting on your model by changing some of the ‘Build Settings’.
Hello, sorry for taking too long.
Here you can see that the normals are not flipped in Blender. I don’t know if I´m understanding correctly but the normals seem correct in Unreal as well, as I should’t be able to see the faces if these aren’t pointing in the correct direction. Also, the green faces in the screenshot you showed me are showing just fine. I used Recompute Normals and Recompute Tangents, as well as Remove Degenerates.
I managed to test your mesh again and found what might be the the source of the problem. Scale up your mesh before exporting it again, and then export using the same settings suggested previously. After importing your mesh into the Engine, use the image as a reference for the settings to use for your Static Mesh.
Thanks for your help but the problem isn’t solved yet. Faces pointing -X in my mesh are still looking different than the others. Even with your settings. I’ll leave a screenshot. Also now, with your settings, it seems that only the ceiling is having indirect lighting.
From this screenshot the inside faces are indirectly lit correctly. The reason the colors are a bit different is simply because it is not receiving direct light. If you look at your original screenshot and compare it to this one, you will see the difference.
This is how the mesh looked when I had it finalized as well. Notice how your Y-facing walls in this photo are the same color as the X-facing where shadows hit it. Unfortunately, there really is not much else I can do as far as getting your model to render correctly. Unless you are seeing something I do not, but I think what you are seeing is the indirect lighting bouncing color against the white material. This color also comes from the sky itself.
Both are lit under the same lighting settings that you sent me. I don’t know where is the origin of the problem, and I wished that I didn’t had to remake the mesh from scratch, but please note how that the -X facing faces are still having the problem in the old mesh, but not in the new one, which shape is almost identical.
I see what you are mentioning now. Usually with a large architectural structure like a house, breaking your mesh up into different pieces helps with the lighting of the model, as less faces are taking up more of their own 0 to 1 UV space.
I ran into the same problem but it seems that I’ve managed to solve it.
Although we used 3ds Max instead of Blender, but the problem is basically derived from wrong unwrapping. You have to unwrap the object(s) in question manually (we used an Unwrap UVW modifier) instead of Automatic Flatten UVs and reimport it into Editor.
I don’t know if there’s any function like this in Blender but maybe there is. Anyway, I just wanted to share this little trick with all the users who might run into the same problem.
I know this comment is really old, but i just got started on unreal and have been having this problem. However, the objects in question that I’m dealing with are rather complex, and with my understanding of manually unwrapping, this would be very inefficient.
I’m still very new to this side of 3d modelling, and I may be completely wrong. Could you please help me figure this out? You’re the first one among many I’ve seen who uses 3ds max to import your objects and I’m sure you’re really proficient in the program.
Also, if this thread is a little old, could we bring this conversation to my post? I haven’t had any answers on it yet.
