I'm making an fps game that uses an AnimatedSprite3D for the weapon model, and I'm having issues with the way it reacts to lighting. The problem I have is that the sprite's dark side faces the player when the player looks towards a light source. Is there any way to have both sides of the sprite receive the same light?
What it looks like:
What I want:
Standard material has options for backface lighting, and even SSS.
You can use an override material on your sprite2D or use a meshinstance3D quad. You have to set material transparency and disable cull.
Back lighting has better performance and should be enough, while SSS looks better but is more expensive.
Jesusemora I didn't know that was what back lighting did, thank you so much for your help! This was exactly what I was looking for.
Jesusemora Hiya, I'm glad he seemed to understand you, but is there any way you could explain how to set backface lighting on an AnimatedSprite3D? I tried to follow what you're saying and I can't exactly replicate it. I have the same issue. Mine happens when I invert the scale (because I want to invert the animation direction on the sprite 3d), and it gives me the same problem.
Lyrical_Lull Use sprite's flip property instead of negative scale.
xyz I should have mentioned: using flip does not flip animations played in animation player nor animation tree, which is why I cannot use it. I'm trying to avoid having to create animations for all 8 cardinal directions.
Lyrical_Lull Just a heads up to me in the past, just use rotation.y and flip between 0 and PI.
Lyrical_Lull What do you mean by "flipped animation"? It will flip whatever is drawn on the sprite. If you want animation to play in reverse, set its speed scale to -1
