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what is a bumpmap texture?
Tittle. What is that for an item, sorry i have to ask
because I wanna try but I don't wanna buy if its not a texture

This is what my friend google has to say:

What is a bumpmap?

Originally Posted by Google
Bump mapping is a technique in computer graphics for simulating bumps and wrinkles on the surface of an object. This is achieved by perturbing the surface normals of the object and using the perturbed normal during lighting calculations.

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Originally Posted by eki27 View Post
This is what my friend google has to say:

can you describe a little more?. And its a texture, is there any differents between them?

It is a texture, where you can simulate/ make it look like there are real 'bumps', 'wrinkles', 'hair', etc. by lighting. I'm not an expert on texturing but that's my own definition. Yes it is a useable texture.
image from Google:


search up "How to do bumpmap effects in photoshop/gimp/etc" on google, it'll help.
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