In article <3D5F015C.594862FF@aol.com>, Dave Dunn <poi### [at] aolcom> 
wrote:

> That is exactly what I was thinking. Since I have finally "come 
> around" to using functions, I like them better than plain old pattern 
> identifiers anyway, if only for consistency's sake. Now if we only 
> had a null pattern identifier to make empy spaces in normal maps, but 
> that of course is a different story...   ; }

Just specify a solid pattern (a function pattern with a constant value).
Normal perturbation only uses the *change* in a pattern, a constant 
pattern won't affect the normal. Try the checkers pattern as a normal 
sometime, the normal only changes at the cube boundaries.

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