Thread by @delaneykingrox

#gamedev #gameart quick trick.
If you are working on super low poly models, like those in the wonderful #valheim, you can get weird shading effects due to extreme normals averaging- which gets the lighting from vastly different directions.

Here, the tip of the ponytail is getting its shading from diagonally down infront of the character. On the edited version, I pointed it to the direction that the front polys would be facing- at right angles to her chest.

This is what is happening. Here a blue light is above and a red one below. The first shape has a hard edge- the vertex normals point up or down. The middle is averaged (smooth edge) and the third is edited so they all point up.

Hit up Valheim. It is fun as hell.

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