Normal mappage

almighty_gir

if your planning to normalmap a character for game purposes. is it possible to mirror any of the uvw's? or should i make sure that both sides are mapped out?

Ninjas

Depends on the engine. Max 8 displays mirrored normals fine.

almighty_gir

well, i was planning on seeing how good this character comes out in the source engine, before running round like a headless muppet trying to find a team who wants to make a swords % sorcery modification.

Ninjas

Probably Source handles it fine. Pretty much any decent engine handles mirrored normals nor problem

John Warner

yah it all depends on the engine that's running it. there might be a shader fix depending on what happens tho.. i know i remember hearing something about a hyper shade solution for the problem in maya.

CheeseOnToast

Pretty sure that Source can handle mirrored normals. I checked one of the vtf files of one of the big insect thingies in Half Life 2 and its normal map is mirrored right down the middle.