Bump Mapping

[StarTrader]

Izz veeeerrry naaaeeeiisss, goooood yob!

[cheeseontoast]

CoT is a n00b

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[w0dk4]

Well, especially on the fighter picture comparison you can see that its clearly detail mapping. It doesnt look bumped at all, its just more dirty.

[cheeseontoast]

aye, also found this line in dacom.ini thought id check there first haha

name = ^detailmap_.* = BtDetailMapMaterial

[Guest]

Well even if it isn’t bump mapping it’s a nice more or less new mapping technique for materials.^^ Maybe it’s possible to add real bump mapping to FL?

[FriendlyFire]

Simply put: I doubt it.

Also, this isn’t a new technique. Just read up on texture baking; you can do exactly the same effect if not much better with good knowledge of 3d texture making.

[Bejaymac]

Easy way to find out if you do have bump mapping is to apply a single color (white or light gray) diffuse texture to the model, that way any real bump mapping will show as lumps & bumps, and detail maps will show flat & smooth.

[Guest]

I’m going to try this on some ships i just got hold of, they come with bump map textures so will use the guide to apply them.

This is an excellent little tutorial, simple to follow as well, can’t see the need for an in depth one, all the info is here.

[oZed]

If you want to see what this does to vanilla models look here at the pack I made of a whole heap of vanilla models with this applied to them, I think I got all the liberty and bounty hunter ship models plus most of the utility done.

Ozed

[Dromedary]

I’d like to know where i’m going wrong. Followed the instructions, and i end up with a transparent model for some reason. All the nodes are correct, they look like the ones in the tutorial at any rate

[LiveOrDie]

All done on the tuturial, but nothing is working, ships, stations and all the rest just transparent, tell me in what may be . Thank you.

Add later: it works, thanks. I would like to know how to apply it to 3db files.