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StefanC · 01-07-2008, 06:57 AM

hey,

Nice tutorial ! okay I realy don't understand normal map now ... I mean don't you have to make like 2 models ? 1 high poly, get the normal map from that and then put that one on the low poly version ? cause if I look at this tutorial you don't have to do all that stuff ... and to apply the normal map do you have to put it on the Bump map ? or give that map a normal bump texture ?... so many questions I know and I am sorry ^^
anyone has a article or tutorial about normal map .. ya know what normal map is, I don't need one how to make one... just what it is and how to use it.

Greetings,

Stefan Coert

EDIT: Okay nvm ... saw that tutorial under this topic and watching them now ^^

01-07-2008, 06:57 AM	#8 (permalink)
StefanC New Member 37 - 3	hey, Nice tutorial ! okay I realy don't understand normal map now ... I mean don't you have to make like 2 models ? 1 high poly, get the normal map from that and then put that one on the low poly version ? cause if I look at this tutorial you don't have to do all that stuff ... and to apply the normal map do you have to put it on the Bump map ? or give that map a normal bump texture ?... so many questions I know and I am sorry ^^ anyone has a article or tutorial about normal map .. ya know what normal map is, I don't need one how to make one... just what it is and how to use it. Greetings, Stefan Coert EDIT: Okay nvm ... saw that tutorial under this topic and watching them now ^^ Last edited by StefanC; 01-07-2008 at 07:16 AM.