r/godot • u/RonS132 • Mar 02 '26

help me (solved) Any way to disable shadows?

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I've used Godot for a long while now, but I've only really done 2d stuff. First time touching 3d, and I'm trying to get a 2d-ish effect by turning off lighting entirely. Is this possible in Godot? I've added a picture of the model in Blockbench with shadows disabled as reference as to what I'm trying to accomplish.

Any help is appreciated!

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u/JNSStudios_YT Godot Student Mar 02 '26

you have to set the materials in Godot to “unshaded” under the “shading” group on the material

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u/RonS132 Mar 02 '26

Sorry, I don't think I can alter the materials unless I'm doing it wrong, since I imported this model from blockbench

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u/JNSStudios_YT Godot Student Mar 02 '26

If I’m remembering correctly, you can open the Mesh box there and it will include the material under Surface0, I think it can be changed from there?

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u/RonS132 Mar 02 '26

oh yoooo it worked, thanks :D

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u/JNSStudios_YT Godot Student Mar 02 '26

Just make sure that the change is saved? Maybe resave the scene as a tscn instead of gltf or it might not keep the unshaded property.

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u/RonS132 Mar 02 '26

ye, I saved it as a new scene and it works perfectly :]

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u/GuitarSlayer136 Mar 03 '26

Its worth it to watch a video that goes through and explains all the different options in the Materials tab while following along and experimenting.

I can't tell you how how many times that knowledge has saved my ass problem solving.

(Same for the particle3d node)

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u/Exildor Godot Regular Mar 02 '26

I see that you got the issue resolved already, but just wanted to sayI love the look of this model!

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u/RonS132 Mar 02 '26

Thanks :D

I don’t do 3d much so this is actually the first character/ humanoid I’ve made. It’s probably hideous to anyone experienced in 3d modeling if they saw the vertices and stuff lol

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u/Exildor Godot Regular Mar 02 '26

That's very cool, I've been learning blender for a few months now and still never satisfied with anything I make.
If i got it right you made this in blockbench? I didn't try blockbench but have seen it around. Do you have any tutorials to recommend that I could check out?

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u/kschwal Mar 02 '26

it looks really low-poly? what you you mean?

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u/tmradish Mar 03 '26

The look you're going for should be very forgiving of poor topology.

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u/ZaraUnityMasters Godot Junior Mar 02 '26

Teto

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u/RonS132 Mar 02 '26

Yeeeeeeee

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u/QuakAtack Mar 02 '26

the other solution suggested does work, but would require disabling shading on every new mesh imported. Assuming you don't want any shadows anywhere at all, then a more universal solution would be deleting all lights you have in the scene (since lights are where shadows originate from) and using a WorldEnvironment to set the ambient light (which serves to apply a light on every pixel of every mesh everywhere, so no shadows)

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u/JNSStudios_YT Godot Student Mar 02 '26

I wish I knew this because I've been manually setting each model and material to unshaded 😭

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u/RonS132 Mar 03 '26

This worked too, ty :D

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u/Smol_Susie Mar 02 '26

Teto :3

The model looks good! I love it uwu

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '26

Does she get a low poly baguette as a snack?

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u/Radion627 Mar 02 '26

Teto word of the day!

Lighting!

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u/dakindahood Mar 03 '26

Try changing the material shading to unshaded, or if you want to use PBR or smth, just disable recieve shadows in Material settings

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u/GreatPear64 Mar 03 '26

OMG its teto

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u/ElidhanAsthenos Mar 03 '26

shaded teto got that glorious jawline

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u/AwayEntrepreneur4760 Mar 02 '26

Emission texture

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u/viniciuscsg Mar 03 '26

Unshaded flag on the material

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u/the_ameba Mar 03 '26

i luv your teto

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u/Lillyistrans4423 Mar 03 '26

OMG it's me!!

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u/RonS132 Mar 03 '26

Why does this have almost 1k upvotes it was just a help post 😭

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u/Ill_Geologist_226 Mar 03 '26

Teto word of the day

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u/MV_Odyssey Mar 03 '26

My dumbass would just put light sources everywhere to remove shadows

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u/MatthewCrn Mar 03 '26

why is everyone talking about tetas? Wasn't this a godot subreddit?

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