[Tutorial] Z-Up Materials

feanix

I've written up a quick tutorial on my blog about how to quickly implement a Z-Up Material for snow and other things.

Take a look!

LMP

Looks useful for some moss on my rocks, bookmarking that.

Mik2121

Definitely going to try this out. Thanks a lot!!!

passerby

nice tut, it's nice to be able to do it with a normal map instead of needing a separate hight map which may or may not be used for anything else.

feanix

Glad you like it guys!

passerby, I'm not sure what you mean about a heightmap. In what case would you need one at all for this kind of thing?

Visceral

Very very helpful thx alot.

Jeff Parrott

Great tutorial! I've been looking for this for a while. Awesome job.

[HP]

Thanks.

JordanW

Hey, FYI it's slightly cheaper if you transform 0,0,1 from worldspace to tangent and dot that with your normal map rather than the other way around.

Oniram

super cool. thanks.

Harbinger

I could be wrong, but I don't think you want to use the ObjectOrientation node in your last image. It might give you weird results as you rotate your mesh around. Instead, plug in a straight up world normal.