Flipping normals does not work when importing from Blender 2.65

Before I hear “duhhh, did you flip the normals dude”, I have done Ctrl+N in Blender on my mesh, I have recreated the mesh, modified the mesh, recalculated outside, recalculated inside, flipped both to see if it worked, and none of that worked as it should. I can only partially make the mesh work and it is making me really frustrated.

Observe in Unity:
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See how some parts overlap as if they were put in the back?

Meanwhile, in Blender it looks like this:
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The best I can do is flipping the whole mesh so that everything shows correctly inside. But if I flip that again or recalculate that again it still does this.

Please help me, it is driving me nuts. I hope it is an easy solution to this.

Calculate/flip the normal will not always work if you have a open mesh. You can inspect the normal of each faces in Blender using this:

Edit-Mode → N (to open the tool on the right) → look for mesh-display settings → Turn on display normals for faces → set size to a reasonable number

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You can then check the normal of each face, if the normal is not right, just flip the normal for that particular face only by highlighting that face then flip/recalculate it.

When you export to .fbx or .obj, make sure that you have selected Write/Include normals (I am not sure about other format though). Then, when you import to Unity, do not use Calculate normal, just use import normal.

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Hopes that this will help you. If it doesn’t, then it will be a shader problem as what @benproductions1 had suspected.