Thank you for the direction and explanation. So then, do you ever just apply detail textures all around in the Diffuse channels to see if it reads well, and then color them?
I havent worked on this scene for some time. Out of nowhere I dreamed about it all night. So I decided to rework ALL my textures. The Diffuse textures stayed the same for the most part, but rather than just FEED them to Crazy Bump. I worked on each of them, making a detailed height-map for each before going into Crazy…