Fugazi1968 opened this issue on Aug 06, 2009 · 96 posts
bagginsbill posted Thu, 06 August 2009 at 11:24 PM
I know how it works. I thought maybe your use of the word "detail" was implying that bump maps cannot produce detail as well as normal maps. That is the crux of the question - why use normal maps? The only answer so far is "because that's what I have" (not a bad answer) or "because I read somewhere that they're better but I can't prove it". :-)
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