It is wabe indeed a bit to strong,

i forgot to mention up close it really looks poor. My point was loading the actual normal map into the bump channel of Vue gave far better results at the same settings.

you know as well as i do for a long time there has been complains/curiosities about Vue not being able to "read" normal maps. I see from my tests it can, it just maybe doesent know it can :D

The Vue bump map is just blurred, the normal is well...normal :P

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