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Literally gold standard for a tutorial video

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Love how you skipped the clickbait and got straight to the point that it happens "INSTANTLY". It's practically free, with no time and labor commitment, and no overhead. No technical intuition needs to be learned, no commitment to creating an entirely new channel of assets, just INSTANTLY.

That’s great. Also, you could use the free program called ‘Laigter’ which automatically creates normal maps that are usually perfectly fine.

hey! couldn’t help but see one of your files said [college name] - do you guys host game jams there? I’m a part of a Game Dev club at another close college and was wondering haha

"INSTANTLY" is a strong word for having to manually draw a normal map for every single texture in the game lol

Great video! Subscribed.

Thanks

There are a ton of things that Alphas can be helpful for besides simple holes like in the video - however since this is just a short I didn't have time go in depth about how cool they are or using them for interesting utilizations for games such as foliage. I may create a full video about them soon if there is interest.

hello. just new to aseprite and game dev. when u create your sprites u make it like 16x16/32x32 and scale 2x 3x in godot? or do u make it larger and use bigger pencil? (like 2 3 4px pen)

but still i think that the original without shaders support look better,the one with shaders is like why should i waste time choosing the colors when the shaders will change the colors into that ugly color palette ,the one on the right is far more visually appealing to me,also for one texture it doesn't change much but if i do that on every single texture that would heavily impact the game performance,especially on big maps,but all this negative review for those shaders is based on me so don't think i am insulting and all that,i just prefer to have less performance impact,like that i can decorate the tilemap as much as i want without loosing much fps,the only way i would use that shaders support would be on effects like arcane spell and similar.

um actaully... hilarious

Great and helpful video. Looking forward to more like it. Sub'ed.

Hand painting gives better results, although it's time-consuming.

what if i want to add normal maps to a sprite with animations

What software did you use for the preview?

Do the normal maps work properly when rotating your sprite by default, or is there some setting to adjust for that?

I didn't know you could use a Normal map for 2D art! Nice video!

is there any way to make this work with an tileset?

What a cool premise

Great video!

i need to stop watching game dev tutorials with no intention of making a game. good video 👍

If you’re wondering about the normal map colors, the RGB Color channels are used to store the XYZ components of the normal vector for each pixel of the image

What about height maps?

It should be noted you can also construct normal maps individually per channel. This is how professionals do it as doing it this way makes it much easier to understand why you are actually putting down the pixels in a certain place.

really helpful!

waow

At this point, 2D in general feels like shovelware.

Awesome video

That's neat. I got acostumed to 3d engines calculating normals for me, having to paint them myself kinda bends my mind a little. For the color I suppose I could use a 3d vector and what color it gets as I rotate it.

How would you do this for animated sprites? Or even 2d animated png style animated objects/characters such as in Cult of Lamb?

"Those complexities don't really matter unless you're programming a rendering engine" Or making a custom shader, which many 2D games could do for stylization effects Or changing the way lighting works from the native default, which may lead to unexpected behavior if you don't know how normal maps work Also, not describing how they work to at least some baseline degree of specificity gimps the viewer out of learning how POWERFUL normal maps are. You DON'T have to use them just for lighting, depending on the nature of your game they could be use for many unique and interesting purposes. They're a great thing to check out in more detail- *gets blown up by the anti-intellectual bomb at **1:14*

i'd say do a mix of both, pixel art with HEAVY normal maps look very jarring and contrasty, your first example of your sword is the worst offender. average out the normal levels so that the sprite reacts to the light, but doesn't self shadow so harshly

Thanks for the simple tutorial, it really helped me!

Cool. I have actually never seen normal maps used for 2D games

can this be done with sprite3D?

Is there any way I could use that point light texture? Trying to make my character, Morver, look 3D but I don't exactly have a point light texture (and aseprite doesn't have a clear gradient option for whatever reason). (I'm using RPG Maker, but decided to use Godot for testing purposes until I learn to do proper coding and port my game into it)

I tried normal maps on pixel art once, but without the skill to make a custom lighting engine it looked terrible. The problem is my style of pixel character art needs smooth normals and a small number of discrete shadow tones, which are both hard to achieve by hand.

There is also a tool named laigter, which can be helpful for normal-maps. Not perfect, but worth trying out.

what happens when the sprite rotates? thanks!

there are free software who can just convert an image into a normal map

a very cool tip.

Materialize - by Bounding Box Software. You're welcome

You still working on this? Looking forward to the next one :)

But…. Do you then draw the sprite normal like always with shading or without shading? Because if you shade a sprite and then additionally make some 3dish light on top. That will add additional shading to the sprite which wasn’t maybe intended before by the artist…. Do you understand what I mean?

a normal map "maps" normals! Its that simple! A normal is a vector which is perpendicular to a plane. Its use in lighting is to signal to the renderer which direction a face is well, facing. In its most simple form the normals match the faces of the rendered object's geometry exactly, but often you want to make a mathematically flat face look less flat and thus a normal map can create more complex normal arrangements to simulate things like texture and bumps on the rendered objects surface. It gets a bit confusing in 2D because generally there is no need for a normal map at all, but taking advantage of how modern engines do 2D you can still leverage the lighting system, and thus normals even in 2D. This is not something I would have thought of, but I normally do 3D anyway. Cool video and technique though.

This looks pretty cool, but I can't imagine doing this for every single animation frame on my characters

A quick look into it like this was perfect. I was using lights and was annoyed with how it affected the sprites looked. This makes it easier to know what to research and try out further.

very cool, +1 new sub