[Release] Unreal: Combat Evolved

They have normals >_>.

Halo didn't have normals... did it? They had bump maps iirc.

Same thing?

Kind of, Normal maps are more complex.

A quick google brought this up:

• Bumpmaps:
  Single axis hieght information maps that the renderer can use to "shade"
  the surface it is applied to. (1D Bump Maps). The hieght info is usually
  stored as a grey scale 8 or 16 bits per pixel image file where the low
  values (black) represent the low areas (valleys) and the high vlaues
  (white) are used to represent the the high areas (peeks).
• Normalmaps:
  Three axis hieght information maps that the renderer can use to "shade"
  the surface it is applied to. (3D Bump Maps). The X, Y, or Z axis specific
  hieght info is usually stored as a 8 or 16 bits per pixel color image file
  where the low values for the x axis (black) represent the low areas
  (x-axis-dents) and the high vlaues (RED) are used to represent the
  high areas (x-axis-protrusions). Green is used for the y axis in the
  same way and blue for the z axis. Because normal maps contain
  hieght information for all three axis (x, y, z) it is posible to discribe
  a complete 360 degree curvature on all 3 axis in the shaded surface.

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Originally Posted by t3h m00kz

Kind of, Normal maps are more complex.

A quick google brought this up:

• Bumpmaps:
  Single axis hieght information maps that the renderer can use to "shade"
  the surface it is applied to. (1D Bump Maps). The hieght info is usually
  stored as a grey scale 8 or 16 bits per pixel image file where the low
  values (black) represent the low areas (valleys) and the high vlaues
  (white) are used to represent the the high areas (peeks).
• Normalmaps:
  Three axis hieght information maps that the renderer can use to "shade"
  the surface it is applied to. (3D Bump Maps). The X, Y, or Z axis specific
  hieght info is usually stored as a 8 or 16 bits per pixel color image file
  where the low values for the x axis (black) represent the low areas
  (x-axis-dents) and the high vlaues (RED) are used to represent the
  high areas (x-axis-protrusions). Green is used for the y axis in the
  same way and blue for the z axis. Because normal maps contain
  hieght information for all three axis (x, y, z) it is posible to discribe
  a complete 360 degree curvature on all 3 axis in the shaded surface.

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Halo 2 uses bump. Halo 1 uses normal.

either way our current weapons dont have neither, only the m6d I think...

Yeah, all that's there is the stock stuff that came with Halo. The bumps were actually from a friend of mine, they didn't come with the game :( There are "multipurpose" maps though, that do things like specular level and opacity that came with the stock textures.

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Originally Posted by t3h m00kz

Yeah, all that's there is the stock stuff that came with Halo. The bumps were actually from a friend of mine, they didn't come with the game :( There are "multipurpose" maps though, that do things like specular level and opacity that came with the stock textures.

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Multipurpose modulates cube-maps, specular and self illumination.

yeah something like that I'm not much of a shader person

Wait...

Was I supposed to be doing something UT3 related today?