Normal texture works incorrectly, showing pitch black "shadows" instead of.. normal shadows

[wooden lion]

I followed this tutorial. The normals looks correct in blender, what could i be doing wrong?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjuyfBaryu8

how it looks in blender

how it looks in godot (pitch black shadows, no highlights?)

[spiral haven]

It can be that the normal map is not what Godot expects. Blender can handle different kinds of normal maps that Godot can not.
For Godot bumps in the normal map should be red on the right and cyan on the top. It can also be that your normal map is not using full Z-range.

[wooden lion]

where should i look into these settings? can i find them in godot or do i have to remake them in blender or Laigter? (i used laigter to create the normal map) i'm super beginner hehe

[spiral haven]

In Laighter it looks like you should invert both X and Y-axis for the normalmap if I understand it correctly

no wait, I downloaded it and it is different from the screenshots on GitHub, the normal axes seem to be correct

if you share the texture, I can have a look for you

[wooden lion]

sure, thanks 🙂

he inverted the X & Y on the floor tiles only, cus that looked better on his tiles

[spiral haven]

Looks fine as far as I can tell, It try it

[wooden lion]

X&Y seems fine for me, the pitch black areas should be shadows, they are just too dark i guess

it looks like the normal map is kinda 0 opacity or 100% opacity (black or nothing) no inbetween

[spiral haven]

Seems to work like it should

[wooden lion]

yea looks the same for you?

if you check my video there you will really see the problem

it looks wack

even better example

[spiral haven]

That looks like your mesh normals are incorrect

try using the same material on a built in cube mesh

that is what I used

Is your light attached to the camera?

[wooden lion]

yes

[spiral haven]

try moving it to the left or right a little bit

or maybe slightly behind the camera

if the light comes to close to the wall strange things can happend

[wooden lion]

its wayy behind now and to the right, still causes the same issue

and really up close

[wooden lion]

ill try

[wooden lion]

i added a standard cube and same thing

[spiral haven]

Yes, definitely looks strange, one thing to try when normals are acting up is to turn the normal scale down

Do you have a lot of post processing in your WorldEnvironment? That can also cause this

Hey, I tried to change the material, I changed Shading > Specular mode to Toon, these textures seem to look a lot better now

[wooden lion]

how do i do that?

[spiral haven]

On your own srceenshot, just above the normal texture in the lower right corner you can see "Normal scale"

[wooden lion]

yea it does!

now i just gotta figure out how to change to toon in blender, cus that option is grayed out on the imported GridMap tiles

[wooden lion]

aah yea i tried that, just made it weirder

[spiral haven]

I dont think you have that option in Blender

[wooden lion]

so how do i enable toon then? ;D

[spiral haven]

I havent used GridMaps in a while, I don't know