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trancor

09-05-2008, 10:39 PM

I was wondering if there was a way to make normal maps actually look good in software render.

It always looks like the bumps are like 5 times deeper than they should be (even with ray tracing on), but I turn on mental ray and it's beautiful.

hakanpersson

09-06-2008, 02:45 PM

You could try with pixeros maya shader. http://pixero.com/downloads_maya.html but besides that I dont think theres any way of rendering a tangent space normal map in software (it treats it as a regular bump map).

trancor

09-06-2008, 07:20 PM

Thanks hakan, aww well..

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