As pointed out in this thread Blender has no proper method to calculate an objects normals so when the view is changed the materials normals don’t change with it.
Having a way to get an object’s local normals would greatly benefit the creation of realistic landscape materials like the ones used in Vue infinite. (see image)
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I wonder if someone in the Blender community would be willing to code a node or write a python script to get an object’s local normals?
Actually that last place was more appropriate for this topic.
IF I am correct, such a node can’t be made with only python scripting but it needs a new patch. So because of that it should be at “blender discussion” and not at python support section.
The point of this thread is that blender really needs a new node for the material nodes and this node should be able to return object’s local normals, not anything that is view dependent like current Geometry node’s normal output.
to do this i think you would need to define for each face with other data defining like a new normal vector to be defined to whatever you want
and when executed you would have the choice to select between internal normal or the new one !
i mean not certain if this is easy to do even with a patch !
it would be nice to have a patch like this to give more flexibility in 2.6!
There is already feature to bake object space normals, it should (or should it?) not be hard job for someone with some experience with blender coding to make a object space normal node.
