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Community Projects => The FreeSpace Upgrade Project => Topic started by: MicroPsycho on January 20, 2006, 05:12:20 pm

Title: Of bump and normal maps
Post by: MicroPsycho on January 20, 2006, 05:12:20 pm

Quick question, 2 actually.

Does the SCP support bump-mapping? And does it support normal mapping?

Title: Re: Of bump and normal maps
Post by: FireCrack on January 20, 2006, 05:22:49 pm

Nope

Title: Re: Of bump and normal maps
Post by: MicroPsycho on January 20, 2006, 05:49:13 pm

damn

Title: Re: Of bump and normal maps
Post by: Shadow0000 on January 20, 2006, 10:08:00 pm

Bump Mapping would help a lot Planets, specially my Earth Model, at least for Lower LODS where 3D Bump are not needed (no one will like a 50,000+ Polys of the Earth with mountains and all that, at least not from far away...it would be a waste).

Title: Re: Of bump and normal maps
Post by: Ghost on January 20, 2006, 10:44:41 pm

I seriously hope that they're working on putting this stuff into FS. The potential for awesomeness would increase tenfold. A pity that the SCP team is stretched so thin...

Title: Re: Of bump and normal maps
Post by: Trivial Psychic on January 20, 2006, 11:58:26 pm

There are plans to incorporate normal maps, but definitely not until Bobbeau's Materials System is completed and implimented.  After that, features such as normal maps will be more easily implimented.

Title: Re: Of bump and normal maps
Post by: Rictor on January 21, 2006, 06:07:58 pm

Where is Bobbaou anyway? AFAIK, he's the one who came up with most of the really cool improvements to the engine (I'm guessing I just pissed off a lot of hard-working coders by ignoring their contribution, sorry) but I haven't seen him around in a while.

Title: Re: Of bump and normal maps
Post by: Bobboau on January 25, 2006, 02:50:16 am

dude I'm like right here.

though I haven't actualy done much over the last nine months (well there's some cool (to me, probly not to you yet) stuff localy, but I havent commited anything sence early summer at the most recent)