Hello! I have a request for a feature that may be a bit difficult to add. Can you please add Normal maps into Gdevelop? It would be located under the effects tab and could be very useful to give some depth to your 2D game. If you don’t know what a normal map is, it’s basically a way to give dynamic lighting to 2D sprites. Normal maps consist of two images.
The first image is called the diffuse image. It’s basically just the normal image.
The second image is the color map. It shows how light interacts with the image.
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Using color maps can give your sprite a feeling of depth. This is an example:
If you could add this feature, I would be very glad.
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isn’t that for 3D objects?..cos you said 2d sprites
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Normal maps can be used to fake volume of a sprite when interacting with lights.
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No, not really. Normal maps can be used on 2d and 3d objects.
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ok,thx i didn’t knew it.
upvoted cos i probably gonna need it too
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another question…how do you light em…i mean do we have a way to dynamically light em(physical lights)?
asking this bcs i know a bit of 3d and for reflection you need dynamic lighting, instead in GD light looks likes works only on brightness the image…
I’m asking…bcs i really don’t know…thaz why i tought in 3D manner
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tbh, I don’t really know how they could implement it into Gdevelop, but I think they would find a way. I don’t know much about it, but this video explains somethings.
In this video it uses kind of the same lighting in Gdevelop, just in godot… I think
yep thaz what i meant.
U need 3d? lights on 2d objects…that is a point light in Godot acting on a 2D sprite.
I never touched the 3D part in GD, for the 2D part i haven’t found anything similar.
Dunno if i’m using the light wrong but i see them act only on the image’s brightness.
It will idd be great to have them implemented.
Like eg: point, disk,directional, and spherical lights.
but i guess it means to have a pysical light engine on the 2D part i dunno how muchh work would it costs.
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yehhh…. I don’t really know either. Lets just hope that they find a way.
at the moment i don’t think it can be done.
sprites in GD are’n really recognized for their silohuette but with their bounding box.
A physical light acting on a 2d character will illluminate the squared box surrounding and part of the character.Hope i’m wrong…
i’d really love em to be implemented
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ig this is just and offset in the normal thing?? i might be able to make an extension for that
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Really?? WOW!
That would be very awesome!
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