Zera
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3D animator currently working in the industry. Da freakin' bat
28, He/Him
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![STOP USING NORMAL MAPS
• SMOOTH SURFACES SHOULD NOT HAVE DETAIL
• YEARS OF VIDEO GAMES yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for LYING ABOUT SURFACE DETAIL
Wanted to have higher detail for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "cutscenes"
• "Yes, please give me a normalized tangent. Please give me a perturbed surface normal" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
LOOK wat what Graphics Programmers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the calculators & abacus we built for them
(This is REAL Math, done by REAL graphics programmers):
[images of various shapes model, normal mapped, and rendered, a sphere with the normal, tangent, and bitangent displayed, some sort of complex math equations]
????? ??????? ?????????????????
"Hello I would like [diagram of light hitting a surface and bouncing off according to the reflection vector] texture please"
They have played us for absolute fools](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g6tr6mz4cbt5dx4jqwmzhiaz/bafkreif2eouky7yyrkycb2qmm3v7eiml64j5bwj2olvigvyhuunuyhiy34@jpeg)
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