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[Anonymous No.982233]

Need help, I'm relatively new to charactermodeling in blender and ambitiously chose to go for an anime-ish style. I edited the normals to make the lighting more presentable, but to my knowledge you cant edit the normals for individual shapekeys, which sucks because facedeformation messes with the light.
Is there a quick and easy work around for this or do I have to redo my shapekeys manually, but better?
It's supposed to be a game asset at the end of the day.

[Anonymous No.982234]

see discussion here:
https://old.reddit.com/r/blenderhelp/comments/151x6g9/customnormalsshapekey_animation/jsbce86/

[Anonymous No.982236]

>>982234
>Can not be exported
Blandent brain dead stroke, a very common disease in the Blender community.

Just don’t use blender, there’s other software that do work with what you want. Blender can’t do what you are asking.

[Anonymous No.982237]

>>982233
that is done with normal transfer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3irBIq1lXk

[Anonymous No.982238]

>>982233 (OP)
that is done with normal transfer.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCDENUgqPEBjWoaDwXo2KEgwHaSovNcgC

[Anonymous No.982252]

>>982236
Cant be exported>? Cant be exported to what? I use custom normals in a unity project and they imported fine

[Anonymous No.982257]

If you're using data transfer in Blender to keep the face normals working through deformations via shape keys, just know that deformations will still break the face normals on export to Unity/Unreal. You'll have to modify the face normals per frame like how CC2/Arc System Works handle it.

[Anonymous No.982258]

>>982257
Another solution which I've seen used in Hi-Fi Rush and Genshin Impact is to use an SDF texture. You'll have to set up a custom shader in Unity/Unreal but the huge benefit here is that face deformation of any kind won't destroy the normals. Downside is that you're essentially using psuedo lighting. It's not 'real' but it doesn't matter.

[Anonymous No.982279]

>>982258
This, the best sol