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title: "Generate Point Normals"
url: "https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/NET_MAXON_NEUTRON_ASSET_GEO_GENERATEPOINTNORMALS.html"
section_path: "The Node Editor > The individual Assets > Geo Modifier > Generate Point Normals"
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description: "This page describes the Generate Point Normals node of the Scene Nodes system in Cinema 4D. It computes smoothed normals for all points and outputs them …"
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# Generate Point Normals

> **Note:** **What is it about?**
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> This page describes the **Generate Point Normals node** of the Scene Nodes system in **Cinema 4D**. It computes smoothed normals for all points and outputs them as an array — the basis for shading-, direction- and offset-related node work.

This Node calculates smoothed normal directions for all points of a geometry and can output them directly as an array.