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1. HELP - Blender viewport bump map painting

   

   Topic by Snowfly · Sep 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   I've been toying around with the idea of paint on a grayscale bump map in the viewport and converting it into a normal map through Blender's nodes and mixed into an existing normal map, to be able to paint high-frequency detail on a model without actually sculpting or adding geometry, just like in Modo and Sculptris.…

2. Re: HELP - Blender viewport bump map painting

   

   Reply by Av7xrocker97 · Sep 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   you can't do anything node-based in the viewport I'm pretty sure. Yet again I haven't gotten into nodes too much... but yeah, nodes are a more render-based thing. You also can't viewport bump map paint. Sorry. I know you could use texture paint and use only black and white, plug that bump map into your material and render…

3. Re: HELP - Blender viewport bump map painting

   

   Reply by Michael Knubben · Sep 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   You could look into the nodebased programming work done by this guy? http://phonybone.planetblender.org/ As I understand it, it places nearly no constraints on what nodes can be used for.