Hello, I’m considering developing a project in Unity with a 3D pixel art style. However, before purchasing, I wanted to ask this: for hand-painted models to appear as they do within the project, they need to be unlit. When they are unlit, playing with lighting becomes quite limited. With this tool, do I need to use unlit materials to achieve the same look as in Substance, or can the tool generate a good normal map during painting that works well with light sources? Is there any example Unity scene I could see? Depending on the situation, I’ll either use this package to create meshes or go with a pixel shader.
You could look at ULTRAKILL, or a number of 3D Realms games for examples of work made with Pixel8r. It looks pretty good lit or unlit and you can always paint or bake more or less lighting into the textures depending on your needs. You can also preview in Painter with or without lighting. It does support normal maps, though I'm not sure of any games offhand which use them. I've made a few tutorials for Pixel8r showing off unlit, lit, and PBR lit workflows.