"Flat" Looking Texture

[dan_chomiak]

I have worked with the VRAY cosmos Styrofoam texture a bunch and have always been happy. However, for some reason in this latest file it is appear "flat" all the time:

Here is the lighting setup:




File can be found here:

https://zs2migration-my.sharepoint.c...Rw?e=9bKHGu

[hermit.crab]

Your lighting is flat. There are no shadows between the individual Styrofoam grains, hence the unwanted effect.

[^Lele^]

Feel free to push the normal map influence above what you have, to 1000.0, f.e.
Otherwise, turn off SSS entirely, and the normal mapping will behave as you expected it to at 100 influence.