Normal or Bump Mapping (3ds max 2021)

[dcbland]

Is it possible to use the tile texture as the source for normal (or bump) mapping?

[Stephen.Blair]

Yes, as long as you don't need to batch render or GPU render (because Tile is not Arnold compliant).

[Stephen.Blair]

I didn't try with the 3ds Max physical material, but that *should* work, it is just converted to an Arnold Standard Surface at render time.

[dcbland]

I have tried this but it does not work.

[dcbland]

My setup: (does not work)

[Stephen.Blair]

Use it as a bump map.

The thing is, Tiles doesn't give you a normal map, Tiles gives you some colors. You'd have to convert that into a normal map, which would look something like this:

[dcbland]

I had tried this also but it still does not produce the expected/desired results. This is with the bump height set to 100 (same result as with height at 1.0). I have tried settings of bump height over 2000 with no noticeable change.

[Stephen.Blair]

Connect the bump2d to the standard surface normal.

In my screenshot, i had bump depth 1

[dcbland]

Still not working.