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Ok can someone please tell me if HL2 supports normal maps or not? I know it supports bump maps but I can't find any info on normal maps.
Thanks for any help,
Shim
Thanks for any help,
Shim
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Shim said:Ok can someone please tell me if HL2 supports normal maps or not? I know it supports bump maps but I can't find any info on normal maps.
Thanks for any help,
Shim
Some not so informed sites/people began calling normal maps bump maps. bump maps have been in games for years now. Normal maps haven't. HL2 is supposed to have normal maps, CS:S does have them too.Shim said:Ok can someone please tell me if HL2 supports normal maps or not? I know it supports bump maps but I can't find any info on normal maps.
Thanks for any help,
Shim
Indeed. I love it when someone pays attention and goes to the trouble of doing the normal maps correctly. Makes me all warm and gooey inside, like sitting in giant rubber pants filled with warm gooey caramel.SidewinderX said:and if you make them, The Dark Elf will want to have your babies.
I know, I couldn't help it. I'm sorryPi Mu Rho said:You promised never to mention the caramel pants!
pretty much yeah, though its a little more involved than that, but generally, yeah.Brian Damage said:So is it just a matter of making two models, one high poly/detail, and one low poly, both to the same general shape, and letting XSI: EXP|HL2 do the rest?
normal maps - each pixel contains the direction a polygon is supposed to be facing, so when lit, a normal mapped object appears to contain more polygons than it really doesMint_Sauce said:So what's the difference between Normal maps and bump maps? Surely a normal just shows what way a face is pointing and then what advantage does it give by mapping a normal? Erm, I know what I mean in my head but that doesn't make sense. Maybe someone could just tell me and then i'd know
Glo-Boy said:Dark Elf, how may I go about getting a pair of these "caramel pants" of which you speak?