Ugly shading

[Jallenbah]

I made a sword using blender, and it seemed to turn out fine, the texture mapping stayed with it fine too.

My problem is that the shading looks terrible when i use a light with it


As you can see, it's like it only lights up individual faces. Will i be able to make this look nicer with a shader or something? Or will i have to subdivide all of my faces?

Thanks

[Virion]

which model format are you using? the normal seems flat.

[JP]

Try using the mesh manipulator (from smgr) to recalculate the mesh's normals, that could be part of the problem here.

Or it could be just the limitations of per vertex lighting when you have very few polys in which case you could sub-divide the polys or use per-pixel lighting (which is probably how blender lit it) by using a shader.

[Jallenbah]

I recalculated the normals like you said, and it seemed to do the trick.


It's flat shading as you can see, but a shader can soon fix that! Thankyou very much!

Oh yeah, the code:

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irr::scene::IAnimatedMesh* mesh = smgr->getMesh("../media/testSword/shortsword.x");
	smgr->getMeshManipulator()->recalculateNormals(mesh);

[torleif]

You might want to pick a format with better normal storage. You don't really want to recalculate all the normals every time you load a mesh

[JP]

no problem recalculating the normals when you load a mesh, it's a pretty quick process and you'll only really load meshes during a loading phase so it wouldn't affect your gameplay.

[hybrid]

The .x format should store per-vertex normals, so it seems that they are either wrongly exported, or interpreted incorrectly by Irrlicht.