[Colonol Dekker]

Bumperiffic, Now do the Aeolus

[Nuke]

thats pretty cool.

how are normal maps encoded? im assuming blue is your depth channel, which would make red and green your x and y channels. how are theese cnhannels signed (theres gotta be a middel, 0 right)? are the normals relative to the face normal?

[DaBrain]

Well, the blue channel isn't 100% like the height map. It's more a view of the difference between high and deep parts. So you don't know how much deep it actually has. You can only see a border line.

The other channels are for light from the top to the bottom and from left to right.

[Scooby_Doo]

Isn't blue perpendicular to the poly normal?

[Bobboau]

parallel to the normal perpendicular to the poly.

[Scooby_Doo]

Ya your right... my bad.

[Nuke]

that clears that question up for me

[Taristin]

The potmarking on the pers is cool, but the plating lines look attrocious.
Should probably point out I realize its a test... >..>;;

[DaBrain]

I was thinking... can we get specular bloom from this? Cause I really liked that in X3. I can clearly imagine how this would look in FS2.

[Nuke]

i just noticed ts7 has a built in normal map shader. this really saves me lots of time, as i was trying to figure out how to actually view models with normal maps.