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Making a Route 66 Sign, I Modelled the Text and wanted to Flip the Text to the other side of the Sign, i tried to use the Mirror Modifier but it of courses "Mirrored" it, so now the Text is Inverted on the other side of the Sign.

Is there a Way to Fix this?

Thanks.

Correct Side

The Inverted Side

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  • $\begingroup$ So i have a nasty work around where you just Mirror it and get it inverted, Separate the Object, Mirror is again on the X axis and manually delete the old inverted One, its tedious and im sure there is an easier way but thats my work around. $\endgroup$
    – zRise
    Commented Jul 26 at 0:10
  • $\begingroup$ Isn't the signage symmetrical? so jist copy the entire mesh in Edit mode and rotate on Z then merge vertices. $\endgroup$
    – Harry McKenzie ♦
    Commented Jul 26 at 6:04
  • $\begingroup$ @HarryMcKenzie That's basically what I would suggest, but instead of doing it destructively I would use a modifier. $\endgroup$
    – Gordon Brinkmann
    Commented Jul 26 at 8:48
  • $\begingroup$ @GordonBrinkmann oh yeah good point we have the array modifier. $\endgroup$
    – Harry McKenzie ♦
    Commented Jul 26 at 9:32

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If the sign shape is perfectly symmetrical on the X axis except for the text, there is actually a better way to solve this instead of using a Mirror modifier and duplicating, rotating and merging the front to the back side if you want to keep it procedural rather than working destructively.

The "normal" Mirror modifier version:

mirror modifier

Instead I would recommend to use the Array modifier and not mirroring the geometry. Place an empty at the roadsign's origin. Remove the Mirror modifier from the roadsign and add an Array modifier.

Disable the Relative Offset and enable the Object Offset, there you choose the empty as Object. Leave the Count at 2. I would also enable the Merge option (which I did not in the screenshot below).

At first it does not look like anything happened, you only see the (unmirrored) front and nothing at the back:

object offset

But when you select the empty now and rotate it 180° on the Z axis, you get a rotated duplicate of the front on the back, with the text oriented correctly and no need to apply a modifier and doing it destructively in Edit Mode.

rotated empty

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