[Blender 2.55 Beta] How to Draw normals?

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Hey guys,

So about 10 days ago, I updated to Blender 2.55 and hated it so I went back to 2.49… Since then I have gone back up to 2.55 and I am wondering how to “Draw normals” like in 2.4?

In 2,4 I would just go into editmode and the Draw Normals button was there… Now I can’t find the button anywhere, since when I recalculate the normals, some normals still face the wrong way, this is very annoying… If anyone can help me out here… I would appreciate it a lot…

Thanks in advance

Glewis

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Press N for the properties window. Look in the Display panel when in edit mode.

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Thanks, but which is the Display Panel? Since going to Blender 2,5 I have no idea which panel is which

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In the panel that appears when your press N just look down until you see ‘Display’, expand them by pressing the little triangle if needed. You will have to be edit mode to show the display normals tick box

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Glewisguy, if you are in Edit mode and press [N] in 3D View window, a properties panel pops up on the right side. Over there, you’ll see ‘Mesh Display’ > ‘Normals:’
Check out ‘Face’ and increase the size by few decimal units to increase the visibility. That’s it. :slight_smile:

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Thank you very much Richard and A(rin)dam

You helped a lot and now I have fixed the normals on this model…

goes into grumble about how the Spline IK Constraint doesn’t work :stuck_out_tongue:

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Thanks for all the info, but…
Just to test normals, I followed the instructions in the “Blender Foundation 2.6” and created an irrgular faced shape, but there is no colour change on the output map, just an overall pale lavender colour. I am sure there should be more variation than that. I tried it with the 2.46 and that works fine. At a loss how to procede.
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Glewis Guy
Spline IK does work for me.
(I know the thread is a little old … but I learned something from it)

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I meant it wasn’t working for me and still doesn’t.

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