When I rotate a mesh using WOP the shadow of the mesh itself also rotates… It doesn’t look good. And I have all the shadows disabled. [4] So it’s casting an inexplicable shadow somehow. This is my material: [mt] Is there any trick to not see the shadow? Thank you so much!!

Apparently, you can recalculate the normals in your shader [Calculating Normals in the Shader]

Thank you so much @ClockworkOcean I will watch the video and I will tell you about my results. :heart:

Hi @ClockworkOcean The video was very helpful. I was able to solve the shadow issue (recalculate the normals). However, the guy in the video forgot to mention that for the calculation to work, you had to uncheck the option I put in the red square. 30 minutes of tutoring and man, he forgot to say t…

The smoothing should be exported correctly from blender and not recalculated in unreal Set smoothing to face on export [image]

I think it’s better this way… I tried making several Bakes to make the normal map and none of them seemed satisfactory. This was the best I got [HealthNormals] There were a lot of strange reflections on the surface. It must be that I haven’t gotten the hang of it yet. Maybe I need more trainin…

Smoothing != normal maps. Smoothing => Depends on vertex normals orientation. Blender doesn’t visualize this in detail (only red or blue depending on the direction) Maya has a way to show this [image] [image] Hard shading [image] (see that each vert corner goes in it’s own direction) Aver…

Thank you for teaching this. I definitely still have a lot to learn about modeling. When I started with Blender it seemed to me the most complicated program I had ever used. And I had technical drawing classes at university with AutoCad. But getting started with Blender was really a pain… Now I …

Blender has the same function here Smooth Shade [image] Flat Shade [image]

Ok, yes… i use it to flip the normals… Or rather, to know where the faces are looking. I think it also paints them blue and red. But I didn’t know that vertices were used for smoothing. It’s also a strange concept, that of “painting vertices” Actually when I paint a mesh I select the polygons. …

I apologize if I write something “incoherent” some times… I write it quickly, translate it into English as best I can… and then when I review it I realize that I messed up a couple of times… Don’t think I’m crazy… just I am not a native English speaker… :rofl: :heart:

No worries 3d art is a vast subject, not everyone has the time to delve into it’s madness ;). The normal maps are basically a pixel shader versions of the values of the vertex smoothing (that’s why you can fake light interaction on a per pixel level in them). But they are more costly than simple ve…

How to avoid shadows with WOP?

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3dRaven (3dRaven) February 3, 2025, 2:39pm 9

Blender has the same function here

Smooth Shade

Flat Shade