PickingInfo.getNormal() of a custom mesh

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Hi,

How can I get the normal (using PickingInfo) of a custom imported mesh? It does work on any of the primitives created with MeshBuilder. But I don’t get proper normals on imported meshes.

Here’s an example. The Normal should be [0, 0.899144, -0.437652]. Instead I get [0, -1, 0].

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Ok, so when I started to debug this inside my project I realised I actually have to wrap the ray casting into one of the scene render hooks, eg:


            scene.registerBeforeRender(() => {
                const ray = new BABYLON.Ray(new BABYLON.Vector3(0, 3, 0), BABYLON.Vector3.Down(), 3);
                const rayHelper = new BABYLON.RayHelper(ray);
                rayHelper.show(scene, new BABYLON.Color3(1, 0, 0));
                const pick = ray.intersectsMesh(ground);

                const normal = pick.getNormal();
                console.log('Normal:', normal);
            })

Solved! :slight_smile:

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