Gradient fill occurs after using Skin Faces/Edge-Loops

Support Modeling
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Hi

I have another lame newbie question. Couldn’t find the answer on the forum.

I have discovered on this forum that I can bridge two faces by selecting the faces in edit mode and then pressing the F key and selecting ‘Skin Faces/Edge-Loops’. That works well. However the resulting new faces seem to have a gradient shade applied to them which is also shown when I render. Why is this and how can I get rid of it? I began my object with a plane which I then extruded so I don’t know if that is causing the problem.

No, just tried creating a cube, duplicating and then doing the same thing to join two faces and had the same issue.

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You might have some of the face normals facing the wrong way. try selecting all faces in edit mode then Ctrl+N.

Richard

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the faces created with the skinning functions are automatically smoothed. Select the faces and press the ‘set solid’ button in the ‘links and materials’ panel under ‘Editing (F9)’

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The normals were fine, it was indeed a matter of using the Set Solid option. Thanks a lot people! Another Blender mystery solved.