How do you make realistic effects look 3D?

[colbaltblue]

This post is a great read and answers your question with one particular technique that’s fantastic. Follow the links in the thread and read those as well. Medric originally posted the technique.

6-way lightmap WIP

Update (8/27/18) original post on rotational issue has been solved, and I’m updating my current progress here as opposed to creating a new post. The shader is based off of @Mederic post found here: Smoke Lighting and texture re-usability in Skull & Bones [image] Hey guys, I wanted to share my progress thus far mimicking a fake lighting setup similar to @Mederic’s post on Skull & Bones. I’ve hit a bit of a wall where I don’t know how to get the shader to work with rotation values o…

You should be able to get something from breaking this apart