Make Your 2D Sprites Look like 3D using Normal Maps and 2D lights (Unity Tutorial)

With the 2D Lights package installed, you will find the suggested names ‘MaskTex’ and ‘NormalMap’ available from the menu. Select the name that matches the function of the …

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to work with normal maps , which are used to simulate depth and details to a surface.

Our normal map online generator produces Unity-compatible normal maps online with proper tangent space encoding. Supports standard Unity normal map formats with correct Y-axis …

This article will describe how to achieve Normal Mapped Lighting for 2D Sprites in Futile/Unity using a lighting normal map and a custom shader. A full sample project is available here: …

Normal maps are a type of Bump Map. They are a special kind of texture that allow you to add surface detail such as bumps, grooves, and scratches to a model which catch the light as if …

Using normal maps, specular maps, occlusion maps, and parallax maps is the best way to make your art appear much more realistic, as materials that use them will act realistically when in …