REVERSING & CORRECTING NORMALS PART 4 | CORRECTING PRIMITIVE NORMALS

It’s time to wrap up our latest tutorial mini series! Today we’re teaching you how to use Houdini’s polydoctor node and what manifold patches are, so you can fix flipped normals on complex geometry.

Sometimes you find yourself with a polygon mesh that has some of its primitives facing the right way, and others not so much. Of course, you could spend hours correcting them manually, but that’s not why you’re learning Houdini! With just a few clicks, the polydoctor node gets the job done. 

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