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Normal/Bump maps not working with iphone unity

Discussion in 'iOS and tvOS' started by Raptor5399, Apr 21, 2009.

  1. Raptor5399

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    They work fine in regular unity but using the same setup steps on the iphone version doesn't show my texture. My normal map is just ignored.

    The only thing that happens when I select a shader with bump or parallax as an option is that I got some strange rippling effect on my model. The effect is there regardless of any textures being set to the bump effect... and when I set a texture the rippling stays and I cant see my texture.

    I don't understand why it wont work on the iphone version :< Anyone know what to do?

    CEH
     
    Raptor5399, Apr 21, 2009
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  2. Eric5h5

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    The hardware doesn't support it.

    --Eric
     
    Eric5h5, Apr 21, 2009
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  3. Raptor5399

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    Raptor5399, Apr 21, 2009
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  4. Eric5h5

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    iPhone hardware does not do pixel shaders like computer hardware does. Theoretically there's some kind of normal mapping that can be done, but it's done in a quite different way than the Unity shaders do it, and the couple of independent shader attempts I remember reading about didn't seem to get it working. I'm not sure it would be fast enough to be particularly worthwhile anyway.

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    Eric5h5, Apr 21, 2009
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  5. Raptor5399

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    Well there's no way I would get it working then lol

    Thanks
     
    Raptor5399, Apr 21, 2009
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