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The purpose of Detail Maps?
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SONB Offline
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The purpose of Detail Maps?
Hi, Esenthel!

Are detail maps normal maps that are additionaly applied to main normal maps? Or are they something else?
Sorry, I didn't find anything about the purpose of detail maps in the manual.



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04-04-2009 03:54 PM
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Esenthel Offline
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Re: The purpose of Detail Maps?
they affect color maps only

they increase quality of surfaces when looking from closeup.

normally the main texture gets pixelated/blurred very much when viewing from closeup, but thanks to detail map the blurriness is less visible.

(just add a detail map to a already created material and play around with "detail scale" and "detail power" parameters in the material, you'll set that it will have better quality from closeup)
04-04-2009 07:06 PM
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