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Implementing normal maps
PSG_MudDate: Friday, 20.04.2012, 20:20 | Message # 1
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Wait, ok you guys don't have normal maps for your planets? I am guessing its a memory hog?
 
DevonXDate: Friday, 20.04.2012, 23:43 | Message # 2
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As i understand all the planets that's outside the solar system is procedural generated. The height map for the planets in the solar system is normal black white maps.
 
SpaceEngineerDate: Friday, 20.04.2012, 23:53 | Message # 3
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Look at the ground at sunset - do you see shadows? This is normal mapping.

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HarbingerDawnDate: Monday, 02.07.2012, 07:35 | Message # 4
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I know that SE has normal mapping; what I'm wondering is whether there is any way to specify to the engine in a catalog to read a normal map, say for a custom planet? I have seen no mention of such a parameter for the planet script anywhere. Is there one?

Example:
Code
Surface
{
DiffMap "xxx"
NormalMap "xxx"
}

Or is normal mapping only supported as implemented by procedural generation?



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SpaceEngineerDate: Monday, 02.07.2012, 07:52 | Message # 5
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Normal mapping do nothing except of bumpness lighting effect on a flat surface. Instead of it, SpaceEngine uses a bump mapping to create a true 3D landscape with lighting effect. SE don't need a normal maps for a planets, like Celestia.



 
HarbingerDawnDate: Monday, 02.07.2012, 08:26 | Message # 6
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I know that it isn't necessary, but would it be possible to support it for catalog planets? For example, I have some worlds I made for Celestia that I was able to make good normal maps for, but not bump maps, or other similar fictional textures where height maps don't exist but normals do. I was just wondering whether this would be possible to add as a feature, especially since I know of no way to convert a normal map to a height map (unlike the reverse, which is pretty simple).



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