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aubone114

10-31-2007, 01:25 AM

i was wondering if anyone could help me out in getting normal maps to work in maya 8.5 or point me in the right direction of a tutorial that will help me do so? thanks a lot

Gísli

11-04-2007, 05:41 PM

Hi.

Plug the normal map into the bumpMap attribute of the shader you are using, change the Bump2d node to "Use As" Tangent Space Normals" and there you go.

You should also be able to turn on the High quality viewport renderer to preview the normal map without actually rendering it out.

Hope it helps.

Regards,
Gísli

tmalinko

11-08-2007, 02:29 AM

Hi, Gisli, you seem to know about normal maps in Maya 8.5, I used your advice and it worked, thank you

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