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Torque 1.5 has bump mapping on terrain?

by Quest Johnny · in Technical Issues · 08/09/2007 (7:57 am) · 4 replies

Threads such as: www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=4210
www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=27589
www.garagegames.com/mg/snapshot/view.php?qid=367
seem to suggest that it is not, and yet in the SDK example I see something that seems to be a bump map, above and beyond the detail texture

www.eyesinthedark.org/screenshots/runt2.gif

Can someone explain - am I being fooled by a clever use of texture, or is something else at work?

Screenshots are off my game blog

08/09/2007 (8:08 am)

This is a sort of software DOT3 bumpmap rendering. It does not use any hardware or OpenGL ext's to render.

08/10/2007 (10:27 am)

And it's in the basic SDK torque without any patching, I guess?

08/30/2007 (9:25 pm)

Yep. I remember reading about it in Ken Finney's book.

08/30/2007 (11:55 pm)

Terrain supports bumpmapping, but it seriously cuts the performances.
And, yes, that's a built-in feature.