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Oops, my bad. Perhaps this is the issue?

removing black bump map artifacts

When creating cycles Shaders using glossy or refractive in combination with the bump node you sometimes run into strange black areas. These artifacts are cause by “badly” reflected/refracted rays. When using a normalmap (or using smooth shading for that matter) we basically use fake normals instead of the real ones, those fake normals however can possibly direct the ray in directions where it cant go (i.e inside the mesh) at least figuratively. Whilst this is no big problem in most cases it woul…