[Tutorial] Z-Up Materials

feanix · Jun 2011

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 · Jun 2011

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

Mik2121 · Jun 2011

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

passerby · Jun 2011

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 · Jun 2011

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 · Jul 2011

Very very helpful thx alot.

Jeff Parrott · Jul 2011

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

[HP] · Jul 2011

Thanks.

JordanW · Jul 2011

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 · Jul 2011

super cool. thanks.

Harbinger · Jul 2011

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.

[Tutorial] Z-Up Materials

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