My house looks solid when camera is positioned outside the house. But when camera is positioned inside the house, it is transparent. That is I can see complete background beyond the house walls. Ideally I should be able to see only walls.
Image when camera is outside.
Image when camera is inside.
Any ideas how to solve this problem?
Image when camera is outside.
Image when camera is inside.
In JME3, meshes are one-sided, and they are culled when viewed from the back/wrong side. (In Blender polygons are two-sided by default.)
To make your house opaque from both the inside and the outside, use two sets of polygons, one set facing inward and one set facing outward.
Alternatively, if your house uses unshaded materials only, you could disable back-face culling on those materials.
http://hub.jmonkeyengine.org/javadoc/index.html?com/jme3/material/RenderState.FaceCullMode.html
long story short - every polygon got a front and back face. Usually only the front face is drawn, while the other is being culled to gain performance.
If you want to change that behavior, please refer to the provided link.
Normally, the mesh of an object is made up of triangles or polys with only one side that renders, often referred to as the āNormalā. Most 3D modelers will āFlip normalsā for you so the opposite side renders.
Itās done that way because extra faces inside an object are usually just wasted resources. If you want them however, you have to take steps to double-face the mesh.
If you combine the flip normals with a clone of the original faces you get an object with faces pointing in both directions (inside and out) and the walls would be visible from the inside. Most modelers will have an easy way to double-face an object (so you donāt also double up on vertexes).
At least, thatās what it looks like to me 
Wow! Talk about quick response 
@sgold @netsky08 I didnāt know you could disable back-face culling on unshaded mesh. Itās been drilled into me for so long that a tri has only one side that I just find it hard to think any other way 
I donāt see the āunshadedā requirement on the javadocā¦ can you use this with any material?
Thereās an interface to disable back-face culling on any material.
As I recall, the back face of a shaded material is always black. But itās been awhile and I might be confused. Try it and see!
Back faces of lit materials are lit backwards because the normals face the other way. (if you enable them with the parameter on Materialās additional render state.)
3D graphics is a series of lessons where one learns that nothing is magic and nothing is free.
In this case, the low level rasterizer (the thing that turns your triangle into pixels) will need to operate differently based on the winding (clockwise or counterclockwise) so itās pretty easy for it to reject on or the other. It already had to know.
After that, itās turned into pixels exactly the sameā¦ itās just that in one case the normals are ābackwardsā (face into the wall) and the other they face out. As I recall, itās actually possible to detect the winding order inside the shader and the normals could be inverted but JMEās shaders donāt do this and there is little point in it, really.
Almost always, the inside of something will need to look different than the outside. My house would look pretty funny if I was staring at the vinyl siding when in my office looking out.
