Bump Map

[jethro.berry]

I was wondering what i'm leaving out when tring to apply a bump map to one of my materials.

I load the map as a bitmap(it is the correct map for that texture. But when i render it comes out the same as without...

Help?!?!

[joe_b]

Re: Bump Map

Do you have a sketchup texture applied to the face/object you are trying to bump? At the moment uvws are only generated by SketchUp if there is a texture applied directly to the face/object. So its possible that the uv information is just incorrect and makes it look like it is not there.

[jethro.berry]

Re: Bump Map

Joe.

Yeah, the texture is one that i applied to the Skethup surface then made a linked matterial.

I've had a similar problem with diplacement maps in that i just can't sem to get them to work.

If i make a new sketchup file, then addd the texture to a single plane in the file and don't change the texture size, ie leave it at the native size. Then add the displacement map (disp since it is Much easier to see the change on top of the texture). It will work then. But as soon as i add a second plane with second texture/map combo, the first (and second) don't... So likewise as soon as i add maps to any model's texture it doesn' work...

So you see unless my modling scope is to be limited to rough surfaced boxes and planes, there is just something wrong here. Me or the program, either way.

I can email one of the models i anyone feels they have a solution

[jethro.berry]

Re: Bump Map

And then all of a sudden it decides to work.
Well one of the 2 mapped textures...

[TOM_cg]

Re: Bump Map

wow, nice.
I did some test as well with Bump/Disp.
I had to use like "50" for the multiplier instead of "1".

can't figure out the right scale for the model/material for Vray..yet. Still have to do a lot of tests.

[jethro.berry]

Re: Bump Map

Yeah, then 2 minutes later i applied another texture to something and it decided to stop working... Very inconsistent. Also very irritating...