Why Cant i use my Normals on a Landscapematerial?

siebencorgie · June 21, 2014, 11:36am

Hi

So my Problem is, i made a landscape material where the layer changes the Textur by its Oriantation, like in the VehicleDemo

The problem i have is that this methode isnt working for the Normals, i cant use this output with the Lerp which is connected to the normals.

The error im geting says: "[SM5] (Node PixelNormalWS) Invalid node PixelNormalsWS uses Normal Input

Whats Wrong there?

RyanB · June 21, 2014, 9:27pm

It is essentially a circular expression when you read pixel normal inside of the normal part of the shader. You will have to specify the normal map manually and transform it into the desired space.

siebencorgie · June 22, 2014, 8:45am

Thanks Ryan,

i will try it.

RyanB · November 12, 2015, 10:11pm

Just use the material function “world aligned blend” it has options to handle that.

RyanB · November 12, 2015, 10:11pm

and because these replies never go where I think they will, repeating in comment reply:

Just use the material function “world aligned blend” it has options to handle that.

anonymous_user_34534f1e1 · November 12, 2015, 10:03pm

Hello I am having the same problem trying to create a similar texture.

My Up vector shader works fine for everything but the normal map. I am getting the same error as above.

siebencorgie: Did you understand RyanB’s solution? Can you share? I’m not sure how to specify the normal map manually and transform it into the desired space.

Thanks a lot!

anonymous_user_34534f1e1 · November 12, 2015, 10:34pm

Hi thanks for your response. However I have added some parametric controls that I want to use in my material instances.

I’ll post my set up. To be honest I don’t really understand how to use the World aligned blend node to get what I am going for.