Plane always black in game renderer

Support Materials and Textures
#1

I’m following FirstGradeCalculus on Youtube and set up my scene like his in the video “Blender Tutorial - Basic Camera and Scene Setup.” Every time I switch to the GLSL setting, my plane goes black. This did not happen the first time I set the scene up on my computer; I was able to create a purple plane with reflections and shadows, but it does it every time now.

I’m running Blender on this particular computer in Windows XP 32 bit with a Sapphire HD 6670 low profile graphics card. Most recent drivers.

Here is the blend.
Fail 01.01.blend (477 KB)

Why won’t it work anymore?

#2

It renders as purple for me. In the bar above your timeline, below the 3D view, next to the mode (Object/Edit/Texture Paint), there’s a “Method to Display/shade Objects in 3D view”. Setting that to “Solid” makes it purple in the viewspace.

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Hope I helped :smiley:

#3

It’s purple in solid mode, but when I switch to texture, I’m supposed to see not only the color, but the shadows and reflections on the plane as well. I get none of that in texture mode; just a black plane. It doesn’t do that to the ball; I can see the ball complete with shadows and reflections. I don’t understand it.

#4

Dang. Well I didn’t see any other issues with the blend. I’d suggest re-making everything in a new blend. Can’t think of anything else.

#5

The normal of the plane is pointing downwards. Flipping the direction of the plane should fix the issue.
Remember the game engine doesnt support double-sided faces by default.