Hi everyone,

Please have a look at:

http://www.merryotter.com/linked/tile/

(uses Director plugin)

You'll see a spinning red tile. On each face of the tile is "etched" a different glyph. They are actually grooves into the surface of the tile, not painted on to the surface.

I've been playing with the demo version of Xara3D to try to recreate this shape. If I can accomplish it, it would be terrific, because Xara3D can export an animated GIF, which is exactly what I need to do.

However, try as I might, I can't coax a way to have the two sides of the object have a different shape. As you can see, one side has a plus shape and the other has two curves.

Do any of you magicians have some ideas for me? It would seem my only option would be to have a perfectly flat tile with two different textures for the front and back.