SamTherapy opened this issue on Mar 03, 2011 · 17 posts
bagginsbill posted Thu, 03 March 2011 at 7:11 AM
Quote - Also, can Poser 6 use Normal Maps and if so, how? Billy-Home assures me it can but I can't figure out what I need to do.
Well, it can use them, just like a man with no arms can use a pair of gloves to keep his feet warm, but the outcome won't be what was intended by inventing gloves.
There is nothing in Poser 6 that will correctly re-create the normals specified in a normal map. However, if you plug one into the gradient bump channel, it will alter the render. Sometimes it sort of looks like what you wanted.
Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)