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It would be nice to see object space / tangent space normal maps make an appearance. The article only talks about tangent space normal maps, which are actually
by klodolph 7y ago
It would be nice to see object space / tangent space normal maps make an appearance. The article only talks about tangent space normal maps, which are actually more complicated than object space normal maps.
- bluescrn 7y agoIt’s extremely rare to see anything other than tangent-space normal maps used these days, at least in games - as they allow the same map to be used on surfaces of any orientation, or on animated meshes
- klodolph 7y agoIt’s not that rare. The surfaces can have any orientation, they just can’t be deformed easily. But the idea here is that it’s easier to understand. If you show an object space normal map, and then show the rendered model, you can say, “aha, it’s really obvious how that works”. And then you can introduce the tangent space normal map, and describe how you use transformation matrices to convert tangent space to object space. Showing the object-space normal map gives you insight into how tangent space normal maps work.