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Are normals from Mesh.RecalculateNormals() normalized?
Hello there,
I'm creating procedurally generated meshes in form of tiles. I want to fix the seam happening, when placing two meshes next to each other. for this I want to take the two overlapping vertices of both meshes and do basically the following calculation: (vertex1Normal + vertex2Normal) / 2
The normals of both meshes are filled by the RecalculateNormals() function provided by the API. so vertex1Normal would be the alias for mesh1.normals[index] after mesh1.RecalculateNormals() happened and vertex2Normal would be the alias for mesh2.normals[otherIndex] after mesh2.RecalculateNormals() happened.
Now my question is: If I understood correctly vertex1Normal and vertex2Normal have to be normalized for the calculation to work. And I would like to know, if the normals provided by Mesh.RecalculateNormals() are normalized, or if I have to normalize them myself (Which would probably mean, that I have to normalize all normals on the entire mesh? Correct?)
Thank you in advance
Yes the normals you get from RecalculateNormals are normalized. Keep in mind that you have to re-normalize your result as well after your combining. That's because the resulting length of your average sum is cos(a/2) where "a" is the angle between your two normals. So make sure you normalize your result
var normal = (n1 + n2).normalized;
Of course when you normalize the normal the division by 2 is not necessary / irrelevant.
Ah awesome! Thank you very much for the tip! I would have totaly forgot! I'm studying Informatiks/$$anonymous$$ath in Uni and I still have so much respect to individuals who see this kind of stuff right away... Then I will normalize it in s$$anonymous$$d of dividing by 2.
