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Question by Shadarath1 · Apr 16 at 02:44 PM · normal maps

Rendering bumped normals on a model

I am trying to render 3d model to display world space normals bumped by normal map. I am having trouble to correctly apply bump map to have all 'edges' point proper directions. I marked some points on render of my current result to explain what I mean:

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1) Correct, pointing Y, green
2) Correct, pointing X, red
3) Wrong, pointing -Z, I would expect blue edge to be on the other side of rectangle
4) Correct, pointing X, red
5) Wrong, pointing -Y, I would expect green edge to be on the other side of rectangle
6) Correct, pointing Z, blue

I am using a default unity cube as a model. I tried to use transformations I found here: https://learnopengl.com/Advanced-Lighting/Normal-Mapping and here https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/11474/rotating-a-vector-by-another-vector-in-shader

My shader:

 Shader "Custom/ShowNormals2"
 {
     Properties
     {
         _MainTex ("Texture", 2D) = "white" {}
     }
     SubShader
     {
         Tags { "RenderType"="Opaque" }
         LOD 100
 
         Pass
         {
             CGPROGRAM
             #pragma vertex vert
             #pragma fragment frag
 
             #include "UnityCG.cginc"
 
             struct appdata
             {
                 float4 vertex : POSITION;
                 float4 tangent : TANGENT;
                 float4 normal : NORMAL;
                 float2 uv : TEXCOORD0;
             };
 
             struct v2f
             {
                 float2 uv : TEXCOORD0;
                 float4 vertex : SV_POSITION;
                 float4 tangent : TANGENT;
                 float4 normal : NORMAL;
             };
 
             sampler2D _MainTex;
             float4 _MainTex_ST;
 
             v2f vert (appdata v)
             {
                 v2f o;
                 o.vertex = UnityObjectToClipPos(v.vertex);
                 o.normal = float4(UnityObjectToWorldNormal(v.normal),0);
                 o.tangent = float4(UnityObjectToWorldNormal(v.tangent),0);
                 o.uv = TRANSFORM_TEX(v.uv, _MainTex);
      
                 return o;
             }
 
             fixed4 frag (v2f i) : SV_Target
             {
                 float3 normalT = UnpackNormal(tex2D(_MainTex, i.uv));
 
                 // Build orthonormal basis.
                 float3 N = normalize(i.normal);
                 float3 T = normalize(i.tangent - dot(i.tangent, N) * N);
                 float3 B = cross(N, T);
 
                 float3x3 TBN = float3x3(T, B, N);
 
                 // Transform from tangent space to world space.
                 float3 bumpedNormalW = mul(normalT, TBN);
                 return float4(bumpedNormalW, 1);
             }
             ENDCG
         }
     }
 }



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Answer by Shadarath1 · Apr 16 at 03:01 PM

I managed to make it work by changing my shader a little:

 float3 normalT = UnpackNormal(tex2D(_MainTex, i.uv));
 normalT.y = -normalT.y;

But this solution looks like dirty unstable hack... I would still hope for a proper solution.

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