Can we get a double sided material flag for the engine and skin settings in MED? 3ds max has a flag that makes any plane using the material double sided.
I am using the Tree generator posted on the forum the other day. Instead of using individual leafs planes I'm using the group leaf planes option. But the planes are single sided geometry. I would have to go into the model and hand copy all those polys and flip the normals to have a 2 sided set of leafs. Since the leaf planes use the same texture it would be nice if I could just check a "double sided" flag in the skin settings and not have do all the model work. I know the engine does this with sprites sometimes so it should be possible right?

Something like that should do it.

I guess I'm gonna have to read that shaded tutorial? Right?
It's achievable simple by doing the first 3 lesson in the shader tutorial and adding the CullMode line in the end. Then assigning the .fx to the skin in MED.
*BUT* I still think a simple check box flag in MED would be easier for newbies and people who are not so sure about shader programming.

I don't think we'll need a flag in WED or MED for this, but we'll add such a material.

dont you think a flag would make more sense since it could be combined with other materials ? i mean, i'd think it silly that i'd have to trade a normal mapping /tree wind shader for something like this ?

I am guessing a flag would result in same thing too. 2 sided rendering is 1 line of code, you can just add it to your shaders.

Adding a flag to choose 2 sided or 1 sided could mean engine rewrite I guess. But, still, disabling culling on the whole model means all poliys in the tree will be rendered, can result in slowdown if there are a lot of the tree must be rendered.

true but it doesnt necessarily mean that this would be limited to trees , also @QUAD: we need to stop assuming that noobs can always add that one line of code

These assumptions have already been made on larger scale. I mean, you are not noob, just go ahead and add it. Main wrong assumption on the engine's part is that "by the time user really needs such thing, they would not be so noob anymore". My point is, before we stop assuming that users will be able add 1 line of code to a shader, we need to change a lot of stuff about the engine.

Still, I would actually like to see a double sided material flag. As otherwise I would always need two different shaders for double and single sided stuff, while the difference is just a stupid renderstate, which you anyways also set for other stuff like alphablending and depthtesting and stuff (which then may is overwritten by the one specified in my fx file, but that is good the way it is).