Modeling: Why are some polygon objects dark?

[Anonymous]

I'm modeling a cartoon man. I've started working on the shoes but the shoes look dark. Darker than any other body part. Why is that? At first I thought it was the normals but i flipped that, it didn't help.

I'm also modeling the teeth. I have the same problem there. I don't know why but they're looking pretty dark. What should I do? I'm using maya 2015.

[pshwayka]

Have you assigned any materials to the model, or are you just using the default Lambert?

[Anonymous]

Nope, I haven't assigned any materials.

[damaggio]

Are your Normals facing out?

[pshwayka]

In her first message, she said she had checked that, but they really do look reversed, don't they?

[pshwayka]

What happens if you switch viewport renderers? Right above the viewport, click on Renderer and try one of the Legacy options and see if that makes a difference.

[Anonymous]

Thanks, it doesn't happen when I switch to legacy high quality viewport. what does that mean?

[pshwayka]

Might have something to do with your graphics card.  It seems like different cards perform differently using Viewport 2.0.

[Anonymous]

Thanks! Mystery solved 🙂
it never happened with maya 2014 😮

[pshwayka]

That may be because 2014 didn't default to Viewport 2.0 so you probably never noticed...

[Anonymous]

I don't think that will affect the mesh when I start texturing