HDRP Lit Shadergraph shader problem with shadows and textures

Unity Engine
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Hello everyone,
so as I’m currently playing around with the shader graph, I saw an question on how to create low poly water effect with the shadergraph. The base idea is to have a base plane consisting of triangles, and then moving the vertices up and down with a scrolling gradient noise.

With an Unlit shader everything works fine, except that every triangle looks the same without any shading. (Which is expected for unlit)

But when i moved to a lit shader in the HDRP the following shading problem arose:

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On the one hand the extremely dark shadows, even tho the directional light is shining directly from above, and on the other hand the weird blue color problem. The displacement of vertices still works tho.
This is my shader graph:

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Otherwise I’m only using a default material with the shader applied, and the model is an .fbx plane from blender which i subdivided and triangulated.

Hope someone knows what’s going on.

Thanks in advance,
Best Regards
Luca

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Hello,

What’s happening here is that you’re modifying the vertex positions, but not the normals, thus the direct lighting is still affecting the surface as if it was flat.
You can use something like the “Normal From Height” node to generate proper normal values from the noise, and plugit to the normal output.

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Okay, that is definitely missing, thanks !
But when i plug the Vector3 position into Normal from Height (with tangent space), not much happens. Also when i only plug in the y/z coordinate it stays the same. Using the node in world space spreads the effect on many more triangles ,so that nearly everyone is affected.

Any ideas?

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Did you ever find a solution to this problem?
I’ve encountered something very similar with a billboard shader. Displacement is working fine, but shadows are acting as if the billboard was never rotated.

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shame

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Anyone found solution for this?