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Bump Mapping Support

Started by executor_2k2 Apr 20, 2002 at 5:20 PM 0 replies 150+ views

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Apr 20, 2002 at 5:20 PM

I have decided to add bump map support to my game engine. I use .3ds files in my engine. Anyone know if .3ds stores bump map info from max? If not should I do bump map calculation in software or make it hardware accelerated. Errm.. I havent used the nvSDK yet so I would have to overcome that learning curve. What do you guys think? Thanks.

python_regious

Apr 20, 2002 at 6:55 PM

You wouldn''t want to use bumpmapping in software, it would be rediculously slow. Use the hardware, look into register combiners ( replacement for texture environments ) and DOT3 bumpmapping ( better than emboss ). There is a pretty good paper on bumpmapping called "A Practical And Robust Technique For Bump-Mapping On Todays GPU''s". Do a search on Google using that to find a download site.

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