Forum: Carrara


Subject: A New Plugin called "Deeper"

mmoir opened this issue on Oct 02, 2004 ยท 41 posts


nomuse posted Wed, 06 October 2004 at 4:20 PM

Sorta. Sorta. Sorta. More like an alternative to traditional bump mapping. Trouble with displacement mapping (aka Anything Grooves) is that you are introducing more geometry into the scene, making for longer renders. The cool thing about normal mapping is it does everything bump mapping does, only better, and faster, too. In fact, you can think of normal mapping as being Anything Grooves in reverse; taking geometry and reducing it to a map, leaving you with a simpler model.