Make Your 2D Sprites Look like 3D using Normal Maps and 2D lights (Unity Tutorial) @BinaryLunar
Make Your 2D Sprites Look like 3D using Normal Maps and 2D lights (Unity Tutorial)  @BinaryLunar
Uploaded June 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
In this video we will show you have to set up your unity project properly for 2D lights using the new 2D Renderer which is part of the Universal Rendering Pipeline (URP), explain to you the five types of 2D lights in addition how to create and apply normal maps to your 2D sprites so they look like 3D game objects when they receive light.

00:00 Intro
01:18 Setting up your Unity project for using 2D Lights
02:25 The 5 types of 2D Lights
06:20 Generating and applying normal maps
08:24 Brief explanation how we did the intro scene

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Make Your 2D Sprites Look like 3D using Normal Maps and 2D lights (Unity Tutorial)

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