geometry.recalculate_normals

Recompute per-point normals from the faces (area-weighted). A point shared by two faces is smooth across them, and one split between two copies stays a hard edge.

The node is geometry.smooth_normals with a crease angle of 180 degrees and area weighting, so no point splits. To keep edges sharper than an angle hard, call geometry.smooth_normals with that angle; to smooth across a triangle soup, weld it first (geometry.weld).

Built from: geometry.smooth_normals.

Inputs

• geometry (Geometry). Whose surface the normals are read off. Attributes and material carry to the result.

Outputs

• geometry (Geometry). The geometry with one recomputed N per point.

local shaded = g.geometry.recalculate_normals({ geometry = g.mesh.sphere({}) })