smalll opened this issue on Jan 05, 2009 · 52 posts
bagginsbill posted Wed, 07 January 2009 at 9:08 AM
I have to increase the bump amount to .2 to even be able to see the bump at all. (Again, this is a terrible bump map - too low resolution, no dynamic range, and just bad shapes in general. But whatever.)
Look at the render. Wherever there are two surfaces in close proximity, opposite in orientation (facing each other) we see a rendering artifact. These are in the eyelid creases, the nostril crease, and the corner of the mouth.
If you fail to understand the bloating, you might think that decreasing the bump value would solve the problem. And it would, but you'd also cause the bump map to have almost no visible effect. So decreasing the bump value is not the right approach.
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