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Question by Koramere · Mar 07, 2014 at 03:58 PM · blendersmoothshadingflat

Is there a flat shading option

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I'm working on a unity presentation involving a blender model. In blender, there are two shading options: "smooth" and "flat". If I select "smooth", this model in particular looks really crummy (which isn't something I can fix topologically). If it's set to "flat", it works just fine for me. The only problem is that when I import it into unity, it automatically applies the "smooth" look, which makes the model look crummy again. Is there a unity setting comparable to the "flat" shading setting in blender?

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Answer by perchik · Mar 07, 2014 at 03:59 PM

See this tutorial

Edit: here's the link text...doesn't seem to work as a link http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/articles/go-beyond-retro-pixel-art-with-flat-shaded-3d-in-unity--gamedev-12259

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Hey thanks a bunch. It works great.

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I just happened to remember seeing that the other day

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This is however not true flat shading as it does not get its data from one provoking vertex but from 3 redundant vertices. Which really is wasted data, is there a method to really change the shademode in shaderlab?

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