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  • Published 10 Jun 2018

Mix Normal Maps

It could be nice to have a node to mix normal maps.

pitiwazou.com/screenshots/Normal_Blend.mp4

Example. youtu.be/QiCCvNfR41U

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pitiwazou
10 Jun 2018

6 Comments

stuarteliason

You can actually use the color-mix node for this because the Cycles node system lets you use colors and vectors basically interchangeably.

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simonstoschu

@stuarteliason: You would think this works - but for it to behave correctly it's a way more complex setup.

stuarteliason

What about using the mix node to mix the normals after feeding the normal maps through the normal map node?

Draise

You can build a system to do this, but yes, one node would be nice.

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jason

Isn't this already posslble?

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pitiwazou Author

@Jason van Gumster: same for the color node, it's easier to have a node who do this than to create with a lot of node, in this case, you are sure it's working.

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