How do i do normal maps or something similar?

[KrazyDev]

So in my game my brother really wants the trees to interact with the light with normal maps, but im i have no idea how. I thought it might of been a sprite effect but not sure.

[Gruk]

We have a lighting feature, but I don’t know what 'normal maps" mean.

[Drona]

There was a plan to include normal maps, but as far as I understand it, there has been no update/progress since 2020:

[Request] Normal map with lights

Hi. I think it would be nice if we were able to use normal maps with lights. It could add some 3D lit and depth to our sprites. Here is a gif demonstrating the difference between a flat texture sprite and one using normal map; [spaceship] As to where to setup normal map in the editor. I think it could be a normal map light behaviour attached to sprite objects which would be like a normal animation editor except we can not add our own frames and animations, it would copy the animation prop…

[VCDGamer]

The person working on the feature deleted the repository last year. I think he’s stopped working on it.

[ChimaereJade]

May there be someone who wants to start a new implentation of this feature?

At the moment I’m playing “Sea of Stars” and beside the great hidden 3D features and the shaders, the normal mapping has an big impact on this lively game world.

It would be great if games like this would be fully doable (including all the eye candy) with the use of GDevelop!