How to compute or rotate normals for obj with bad normals

[haestflod]

Hi, I have an .obj file that has bad normals. It's exported from 3ds max a long time ago and z is up and y is forward (XZY) instead of XYZ  which causes huge issues for my lighting.

Related topic I think made a long time ago:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/archive/index.php?t-305628.html

 

So I'm wondering if there's anything I can do with babylon to try and fix this?

Unity for example has "calculate Normals"  (Normals & Tangets -> Normals -> calculate)  that solves it.

Importing & Exporting and disable "autosmooth" in blender also worked.

Three.js auto-solved it when importing the obj.

 

I tried the BABYLON.VertexData.ComputeNormals and it did not solve it for me.

I did solve it myself by rotating the normals with this:

var rotationQuat = BABYLON.Quaternion.RotationYawPitchRoll(0,  Math.PI * 1.5, 0);

 

So for the question again is there any way that I could have used babylon's existing API to solve the bad normals?

Here's a playground with the model and a directional light:

http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#1S9WC2#3

Here's an imgur picture I took of my project using a shadermaterial rendering the normal values:

http://imgur.com/a/466NV

As you can see in the picture "up" is positive Z and forward is positive Y which is why the directional light does not work.

[V!nc3r]

Why not just use Blender to clean the mesh ? (import mesh, switch to edit mode and select all the faces, ctrl+f > recalcultate normals ; job done !)

[haestflod]

I know that is one possibility I even wrote it in the post that using blender is one solution to the problem. This is the solution I went with in the end aswell. ( I have a lot of models that have the same issue )

 

But I was curious  if there is a way to solve it with babylon to get a better understanding of babylon.

 

My custom solution to the problem so far is:

Check a face to get upvector   (all y vertice points are the same)

If the upvector is Z then rotate all the normals with the quaternion

[GameMonetize]

You can ask the VertexData to compute normals:

				var normals = [];
				BABYLON.VertexData.ComputeNormals(handledMesh.positions, handledMesh.indices, normals);

 

[haestflod]

Thanks, that was it. I did 1 thing different this time adding this line after ComputeNormals().

m.setVerticesData( BABYLON.VertexBuffer.NormalKind, normals );		

 

When I tried it few days ago this is the code I used and I guess I must have thought it'd be automatically updated.

var positions = m.getVerticesData(BABYLON.VertexBuffer.PositionKind);
// Now I used [] like Deltakosh wrote.
var normals = m.getVerticesData(BABYLON.VertexBuffer.NormalKind);

BABYLON.VertexData.ComputeNormals(positions, m.getIndices(), normals);

 

[GameMonetize]

This should work

did you check if your faces are in the right order?