Image Texture a Plane with the Solidify modifier – Flip Text (Blender 5.0.1)

[Carlos]

Hi guys, hope you are all doing well.

I am creating some real life objects as entertainment and to practice, right now I was creating this Bambu Smooth PEI Plate:

Which is a simple plane with some cutouts and some seams for UV unwrapping:

On the modifiers I have:

1. Bevel (Vertices based on weight)
2. Solidify 1mm
3. Smooth By Angle

The Image texture I am using is:

Now the issue, if I flip the model, the other side of the plate looks like this 🙂

The text is wrong.

My question: Is it possible to make it work without having to apply the modifiers and move/flip the bottom faces in the UV editor?
I googled a bit and found a cool thing in the shader editor:

However, this doesn’t seem to work if I have the solidify modifier active:

I tried using the normal/true normal of the geometry and comparing if the Z is greater than .5, but this breaks as soon as I rotate the object. I thought, maybe if I make it a child of an empty, the normal will stay fixed (using the local axis?? IDK), but it didn’t work, as soon as I rotate the empty the same issue happens.

Any tip would be welcome, If there’s no workaround I’ll just apply the modifiers.

Thanks in advance.

[Martin Bergwerf]

Hi Carlos,

A possibility is, to give the back a different Material, for instance like this:

[Omar Domenech]

Same as Martin, you can have two materials and UV two sets of different UV layouts that you can lay independent from one another. That way you can have a material and UV set up for one side and a different UV setup and material for the other. 

[Carlos]

Thank you both, I am going to try these out right now.

Have a great weekend!

[Carlos]

Done 🙂 thx again.

First time using multiple UV Maps, had to use the UV Map in the shader node editor to pick each one for each material.

[Carlos]

I had no idea about the options that the solidify modifier offers, with this other one “output vertex groups” I can do it with 1 material:

[Martin Bergwerf]

Ooooh,

I never used that one….interesting!

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