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1. Is there any tricks to get a low poly cone to shade correctly? (Custom normals? geometry tricks?)

   

   

   Topic by ZacD · Jul 2016 · Home› Technical Talk

   So with vertex normals, when you try to shade a simple cone, you have to use a lot of geometry or a normal map. Because if you try to use just 1 vertex on top, the back side will not shade correctly. And if you use quads with a flat cylinder top, you get these hard smoothing edges from the tris. I know the simplest…

2. Re: Is there any tricks to get a low poly cone to shade correctly? (Custom normals? geometry tricks?)

   

   

   Reply by Antut · Jul 2016 · Home› Technical Talk

   I have this on maya with the default cone primitive: Maybe you can try unlit shader or emissive to avoid the black shade.

3. Re: Is there any tricks to get a low poly cone to shade correctly? (Custom normals? geometry tricks?)

   

   

   Reply by throttlekitty · Jul 2016 · Home› Technical Talk

   I couldn't do any better either, but I wonder if there's any special shader out there just for cones? Here's a really stupid "solution" with 20 faces though! ...but it also uses transparency and a normal map.

4. Re: Is there any tricks to get a low poly cone to shade correctly? (Custom normals? geometry tricks?)

   

   

   Reply by Joost · Jul 2016 · Home› Technical Talk

    this is the best I could do Zac