Can a 6 sided look like one with round corners only with normal map? (unity)

Wintersun

Hello there, the title says it all. I've tried this with 3pointshader and it works but in unity it doesn't. if I have a cube with 6 polygons, and bake normal map of a cube with rounded edges on it (even with separate smoothing groups and seperate uv islands) I still can't get looks of a rounded edge cube in unity. is it unity's normal map problem? or I should always chamfer a little to get the results I want.
BTW, I saw some handplane videos on youtube, I think the base of the turret had sharp edges in topology but with normal maps it was smooth, and It was in unity

Neox

there are a few things to consider

1. did you bake in max? then bake out a objectspace map and transfer it to unity tangentspace using handplane3d

2. the same for xnormal

3. did you import your normalmap right? after import you have to select it, set it from texture to normalmap and remove the stupid use alpha as grey default setting

Wintersun

Thank you for the quick reply.
Yes I baked in max, and no I haven't transferred it to unity tangentspace, and yeah I imported it right.

JedTheKrampus

Maybe you should post images that illustrate the problem that you're having. You should also consider baking to object space and then using Handplane to convert the object space map to tangent space.

http://handplane3d.com/

Wintersun

Thank you, the problem is solved, but I got another question right now, this only shows really nice results when I change rendering path to Deffered lighting. Can I use Deffered lighting on android and iOS devices? any ideas?

Mark Dygert

I don't think you'll be able to get deferred lighting on a lot of the mobile devices that are floating around. I think they added it to unity Pro but there isn't much that hardware support it, yet. I don't think any of the iOS devices can pull it off?

More detailed reading about deferred vs forward rendering in unity:
http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Manual/RenderingPaths.html