Face weighted Normals Compound

gaboraa · Post by **gaboraa** » 18 Aug 2018, 10:58

Face Weighted Normals aka weighted normals. This concept is super-duper important in game industry and I haven't found any plugin or script to adjust the face weighted normals. Maya has this feature called "set to face" but we don't have it by default. So recently I found rray's approach to the issue and created a separate Ice Node.

Here is an example what it does:

To use it you must add user normals before you apply the compound to the mesh.

rray · Post by **rray** » 19 Aug 2018, 12:13

Cheers, makes sense to have it compounded. FWN should be the default implementation for all kinds of viewports

Draise · Post by **Draise** » 21 Aug 2018, 01:41

Very handy.

Grubber · Post by **Grubber** » 12 Dec 2018, 14:22

Thank you very much!

nghia59 · Post by **nghia59** » 10 May 2020, 19:23

You guys should check out the User Normal Translator. Its actually the best one out there.

https://vimeo.com/115104048

It was probably used for Guilty Gear XRD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhGjCzxJV3E

In case anyone was wondering, in games currently, we're moving away from the high to low bakes and now face weighting and using a lot of 2D normal mapping solutions for hard surface to save time and be more efficient with texture space.

gaboraa · Post by **gaboraa** » 11 May 2020, 13:02

True, mesh decals, and 2d normal atlases are the new norms in detailing game props, used extensively in Star Citizen for example.

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