odf posted at 3:23 PM Tue, 21 December 2021 - #4432207

If I understand correctly, a normal map would only encode a normal direction, not a displacement magnitude?

That's the idea for normal displacement without changing the actual geometry, yes. But at the end RGB colors are interpreted as XYZ coordinates.

I have no access to Poser at the moment. Otherwise I would try doing a standard morph, then add subdividing and push just one of the new vertices and look at the output data.

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