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So how does one go about making a 3do that is simply one double sided polygon? I figure that would work better than the extremely thin 6 sided prisms i have now.

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To build a surface with Ctrl+B, multiselect the vertices one at a time in the order you would traverse the edges of the surface.
Sometimes (depends on which direction you select the vertices) you'll create the surface "inside out" ... that is, the "top" side (on a one-sided surface, the side that is rendered) of the surface is facing into the sector, instead of out of. No problem, though; just hit ctrl+I to invert the surface.

For example, to build a square surface with the four vertices shown below, you want to multiselect the vertices in one of the following orders:
1,2,3,4
2,3,4,1
...
4,3,2,1
3,2,1,4
...

1 . . .2   '      '   '      '   '      '   '      '   4 . . .3

You should not build a surface when you have selected vertices in some other fashion, such as 1,2,4,3; this particular selection will give you a surface that looks like this:

1.____.2     \;;/       \/         /\        /  \    4/____\3

Play around with it a little bit and you'll get it down really quick

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In ZED, you don't need to open the 3do file directly to change the face flags. Just modify the face flags as you normally would; the option for "Two-sided" and all other checkbox options actually save to the 3do file correctly.

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I would actually recommend not deleting the side surfaces, but instead flag them as +GEO 0 or give them a transparent texture. Then just reduce the distance between the front at back of the grass 3do box, but note that this distance should be greater then 0. The reason for this is due to how dynamic lights react with non-true 3D objects. In addition to this, I would add the "EXTRA LIGHT" value and give it, say, 0.5. This will keep shadows on the opposite side of the grass from the light source from being too dark (considering that grass allows a certain degree of luminisity to pass),