Questions tagged [normals]
Normals describe how faces and vertices are oriented and can be used to aid various calculations and effects. This tag should be used for questions regarding normals in Blender, from uses to issues.
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how do I bake normals?
The Normals just bake weirdly and I don't know why
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3d blender protruding type change key
I'm frustrated because the change isn't happening. How can I switch the Extrude function from the E key to a different type of extrusion?
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'Cinema4D-exported' OBJ issues - Weird normals recalc result
I'm fairly new to Blender - only started learning this year. So this could be something painfully obvious to a lot of you.
I'm trying to import a drawing I did a while back when I used Cinema4D for ...
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Blender export causes Substance Painter "Missing seams on hard edges" error
It's rather a specific problem, I downloaded a model of a gun from the official CS2 workshop tools (provided by devs) for skin makers (Also, just to clarify, you got to understand that I can't change ...
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Show/Debug Normals from an "Object Info" node - use those normals as input for a displacement GN network
Is it possible, in a Geometry Nodes network, to retrieve the normals from
a given Geometry "Object" different from the Geometry that holds the GN modifier.
Currently, I have made a "...
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Mesh becomes see-through from certain angles when exporting to GLB
I have a 3D model of a house and have tried to texture it using textures from ambientcg.com. When applying this roof texture and exporting to .glb for use in WebGL, the roof looks transparent from ...
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Transparent Render makes object blue
I'm rendering this object animation which is a tangram puzzle that starts as a box and moves to different shapes. Whenever I render it in cycles (with transparent turned on) using FFmpgvideo - RGBA ...
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Is there any way to get the face/vertex normals as it is rendered via python?
Let's get a bit more specific here. In my previous question I mentioned I have a mesh with flipped/misoriented UVs, as it was originally textured for an engine that didn't care about the orientation ...
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Why I'm getting artifacts with normals of exported mesh?
I've created mesh and exported it in unreal engine 5, where I'm getting strange artifacts like this:
when in Blender it looks okay:
I thought the problem could be in normals, but looks like there is ...
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How to save editing normals?
I started learning about editing normals. I'm currently using a proxy for this
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To save memory I apply the modifier
But why when I use the modifier subdivide
All edits are lost
How can I save ...
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Splotches on baked normal maps
Not sure why but when baking normal maps I sometimes get these strange splotches of color that are incorrect. It's not due to any modifiers because it happens with multiple models & it still ...
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How to check whether a mesh has Custom Split Normals layer data from python API
I'm tring to get an infromation on a mesh, whether a certain mesh has Custom Split Normal Layer Data or not. I'm not sure how it's stored on the mesh data and how to access the data from python API. ...
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Is it possible to bake normals for multiple similar objects using single high poly?
I’m trying to find the way to bake all teeth (see picture) from one single high poly tooth. Is it possible?
Teeth were made with array and curve modifiers. Modifiers were applied as the lower ones was ...
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How can I rotate the face normals in this way in geometry nodes?
How can I rotate the face normals in this way in geometry nodes?
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Modifying normals at bent corners to get a flat surface/sharp corner
I've been given a reduced-poly model of a car for real-time use. However, there are many instances where the geometry turns a sharp corner, and the vertex normals at that corner cause the specular ...
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