dasquid opened this issue on Oct 17, 2009 ยท 11 posts
bagginsbill posted Mon, 19 October 2009 at 4:43 PM
When VSS sees an Image_Map node in your template, and it does not find a corresponding file to use for it in the target material, then it instead uses whatever is plugged into the Image_Map node's Background parameter.
In the skin shader I made for VSS, I plugged a Turbulence node into the Background parameter of the Bump Map - thus it supplies some bump no matter what. Whatever value you want to use as an alternative to a missing image map, just set that value in the Background. Whether it is a number or color or a whole series of nodes doesn't matter.
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