Comments on: Simple Normal Mapping Tutorial

By: Lancer

Lancer — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:41:59 +0000

It was a nice surprise for me to discover my tutorial found its way onto BlenderNation. Thanks everyone, and especially Alex Delderfield (AD-Edge) for the kudos. The feedback has been amazing and I’ve now made minor adjustments to improve the clarity of one or two areas in the tutorial.

By: Michael Stewart

Michael Stewart — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:37:42 +0000

Good tutorial. That is really cool.

By: Temaruk

Temaruk — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:56:41 +0000

You are welcome!

By: Unsettlingsilence

Unsettlingsilence — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:31:33 +0000

Awesome! Thanks a ton Temaruk.

By: Temaruk

Temaruk — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:32:21 +0000

There is a normal map shader that solves that problem. Called self-shadowing bump map.

http://forums.facepunchstudios.com/showthread.php?t=529746

By: Unsettlingsilence

Unsettlingsilence — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:26:07 +0000

You will note that the shadow does not render the same since it does not recognize the normal map. If you are making a game or a still image with a stationary object then you should probably save and apply the high poly’s shadow layer to your object as well.
I wonder if it is possible to fix this in future versions of Blender, or to add the option of affecting the shadow layer with a normal map. That would make add a lot more realism, especially in the game engine, with hopefully a minimum affect on performance.

By: Temaruk

Temaruk — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:59:55 +0000

Great tutorial, but the image is misleading. The low-poly with the normal map won’t look exactly like the high-poly, like on the image. I would change the image of the monkey head (that is after the equal sign, it can be seen, that it is the high-poly one) to the normal mapped low-poly.

By: mercury

mercury — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:55:33 +0000

hey; esta genial…
en muy pocos pasos tienes unos buenos resultados…
se agradece…
saludos…

By: Alex Delderfield (AD-Edge)

Alex Delderfield (AD-Edge) — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:34:22 +0000

Link updated, should work fine now.

Ill get it right one of these days… ;)

By: DiThi

DiThi — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:12:08 +0000

Oops, the link still scrolls down to the same post… the correct link:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=138194