Mike Raiford wrote:
> Mike Raiford wrote:
>> Mike Raiford wrote:
>>> It looks good, except, it's gone plaid...
>>>
>>> Looks like everything worked as expected, except the left edge and 
>>> top edge didn't have appropriate normals, causing a plaid effect.
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>> Hmmm... An attempt, using the mean delta between two rows or columns.
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> Haha! Perfection!
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> Instead of the mean of the deltas, I used the median of the deltas!
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used map:

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"Mike Raiford" <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> schreef in bericht 
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> I think Blender and other modeling programs use them as well. I'm betting 
> inside a lot of games that use D3D hardware probably use them, since they 
> can give better surface normal results. Many of the commercial 3D packages 
> can use them, too.

Ah! I remember now that GeoControl (a heightfield program) can generate 
normal maps too. I always wondered what I could do with them... in Pov I 
mean... :-)

Thanks for lighting my dim understanding torch...

Thomas

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