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Unity Script Reference - Mesh - Normals

The document provides information about the 'Mesh.normals' property in Unity, which returns the normals of a mesh as an array of Vector3. It includes a code example demonstrating how to rotate the normals of a mesh every frame and emphasizes the importance of copying and reassigning normals to the mesh. Additionally, it notes that normals are assigned to vertices rather than triangles.

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Unity Script Reference - Mesh - Normals

The document provides information about the 'Mesh.normals' property in Unity, which returns the normals of a mesh as an array of Vector3. It includes a code example demonstrating how to rotate the normals of a mesh every frame and emphasizes the importance of copying and reassigning normals to the mesh. Additionally, it notes that normals are assigned to vertices rather than triangles.

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Mesh.normals
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public Vector3[] normals;

Description
The normals of the Mesh.

If the Mesh contains no normals, an empty array is returned.

// Rotate the normals by speed every frame

using UnityEngine;

public class ExampleClass : MonoBehaviour


{
float speed = 100.0f;

// Update is called once per frame


void Update()
{
// obtain the normals from the Mesh
Mesh mesh = GetComponent<MeshFilter>().mesh;
Vector3[] normals = mesh.normals;

// edit the normals in an external array


Quaternion rotation = Quaternion.AngleAxis(Time.deltaTime * speed, Vector3.up);
for (int i = 0; i < normals.Length; i++)
normals[i] = rotation * normals[i];

// assign the array of normals to the mesh


mesh.normals = normals;
}
}

Note: To make changes to the normals it is important to copy the normals from the Mesh. Once the normals have been copied and changed the normals can be reassigned back to
the Mesh.

Note: normals are assigned to vertices, not triangles.

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