Normals in Blitz

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Dicon(Posted 2013) [#1]
I am using Blender to create a scenario and ( before I spend too much wasted time doing it ) can I use normals?


Yasha(Posted 2013) [#2]
Yes.

However, you must export in the B3D format if you want normals to be loaded properly by LoadMesh/LoadAnimMesh, or use a hand-written file importer. B3D's other built-in file types (certainly 3DS, not sure about the others) don't support normals and won't load them properly even though the resulting mesh itself will.

You can also use Dot3 textures for normal mapping, although this isn't as straightforward a process as in newer engines.