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neepneep
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ISL-Normals question

Post by neepneep » Mon Nov 14, 2011 5:22 am

Is it possible to use ISL to colour faces depending on their normal?

If so, how ? :mrgreen:

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Re: ISL-Normals question

Post by OnoSendai » Mon Nov 14, 2011 6:20 am

normalWS() returns the shading normal in world space :)

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Re: ISL-Normals question

Post by CTZn » Mon Nov 14, 2011 8:14 am

in other words you can blend materials depending on the shading normal relative to a world direction, not relative to the geometric normal itself.

Still that may be usefull for leaves, a field left to explore. Being able to determinate wether the shaded point is on the positive or negative side of the normal is an active request !
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Re: ISL-Normals question

Post by neepneep » Mon Nov 14, 2011 12:04 pm

That worked - well sort of - I just found I needed the render to be flat shaded as well showing just the different coloured normals. Instead I ended up breaking up the mesh manually according to the normals, assigned each one a new material and then used the 'material id' render mode in Blendigo. Worked perfect and mega fast! Can't show it though unfortunately :( :lol:

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