Forum: Vue


Subject: Displacement vs Normal Map

FrankT opened this issue on Dec 31, 2009 · 7 posts


ShawnDriscoll posted Fri, 01 January 2010 at 1:16 AM

Quote - Looking around the material editor in Vue 8 infinite and I noticed a button to load a normal map.  I was wondering if anyone has tried that and if so, does it use less resources than a displacement map ?
inquiring minds would like to know (plus I haven't figured out how to export displacement maps from ZBrush yet let alone normal maps :biggrin) )

Frank

Normal maps work like bump maps, only better.  Great for making lo-poly models look like they're hi-poly models.  Displacement maps generate polys while normal maps do not.

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