topic Betreff: Can't turn off backface culling in Maya 2023 in Maya Modeling Forum

Can't turn off backface culling in Maya 2023

Glaums — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 13:45:26 GMT

Hi there,

I know this topic has been discussed a lot and I read them (almost) all. Still I couldn't find a solution, so I start a new topic. Normally I want to turn backface culling on and get in trouble, trying to do so. This time I want to turn it off and got the same problem reversed. For some reason Maya 2023.3 has turned on backface culling in the scene I loaded.

I tried the following steps.

Turning backface culling on and off in the Viewport.
Windows>Preferences>Polygons>Backface culling: off
Windows>Preferences>Selection>Automatic camera-based selection: Higlighted
Tool Settings>Automatic camera-based selection: Higlighted and Highlight backfaces: Highlighted
Attribute Editor>Mesh Component Display>Backface Culling:off

Still it doesn't select any of the faces of the backside, when I draw a square to select them in component mode in the sideview. I tried to attach the file with the problem, but the site give me some error with (application/octet-stream) and removes it.

Scoon

Re: Can't turn off backface culling in Maya 2023

The-Digital-Shaman — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 04:41:51 GMT

It's nuts that single feature is spread across so many places!

I don't have a solution for you, but want to add another issue with backface selection to the topic, so maybe someone will finally start working on it.

That is, assigning backface culling (the one in attribute editor) for multiple objects doesn't override settings if one or more objects have a different setting than the other ones.

So in case a scene has 100 objects, one needs to change it one by one. At least to my knowledge.

Perhaps one can change it in the Attribute Spreadsheet Editor, but I don't see it there.

Re: Can't turn off backface culling in Maya 2023

lemonyfreshness — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 19:54:23 GMT

Just adding to this for the sake of understanding the issue. The bug resides in the scene, not in prefs or the UI. I wasn't able to get it to quit backface culling till I exported all assets in the scene and imported them into a fresh one.

Betreff: Can't turn off backface culling in Maya 2023

Glaums — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:02:56 GMT

Ok, almost one year later I found the solution. If Windows>Preferences>Selection>Automatic camera-based selection is unchecked, it may not change anything, if Windows>Preferences>Selection>Camera-based selection is still checked. Now that I found it, it seems logical to me, but I did'nt was aware of, that there are two options in the first place. Should have taken a closer look.

Betreff: Can't turn off backface culling in Maya 2023

maja.divjakW2VMQ — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 01:52:53 GMT

Works perfectly. Thank you.

Re: Can't turn off backface culling in Maya 2023

adamghering — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:52:49 GMT

what if it is greyed out and wont let you change it?