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Levitateme

06-14-2003, 08:24 AM

I got a shader that will allow me to render out normal maps. I have never heard of them until today, are they just the newest thing? do they just offer better results then then the black and white bump maps? can someone explain to me how i would use them in maya? would i still just use a image that is a normal map render as my bump map, instead of the black and white images?

beaker

06-14-2003, 08:43 AM

Oliver has a bunch of plugins and tutorials on using them on his site:
http://www.drone.org/

Doogie

06-14-2003, 09:30 AM

beaker beat me to the link above =)

but here's the other link I dropped in your other thread on this (it explains why it's used)

http://members.shaw.ca/jimht03/normal.html

Levitateme

06-14-2003, 10:13 AM

yah , that link is really helpful, you can really see the benefit of using them tahnks for that.

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