Texture question

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stevo1
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Texture question

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Hi all, I am in the process of getting my head around materials and textures. I see that when rendering to get "bump" I require a "normals" map. Since I am new to this what is the difference between a "norma"l and a "bump" map?
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Re: Texture question

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Normal maps provide more information than bump maps, since they can specify direction as well as depth.

A good place to get free texture with their normal maps is...

https://www.filterforge.com/filters/cat ... page1.html

You can tell the normal map because it's bluish.
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