How to join two normal map textures in blender nodes

how to join two normal map textures in blender nodes

Normal Map Textures can be combined with this :

https://blog.selfshadow.com/publications/blending-in-detail/

The last node is a simple N*0.5+0.5

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You can combine your two images with a single Color Mix node

Uhmmm… I don’t think that a simple mix is the right way to mix two normal maps.
That blog page explain the reason.

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Yes… but you can use overlay for a quick check and if it looks good enough … then it looks good. :wink:

As long as you know this is a quick hack and there might be a better way but you do not find the link/notice for the perfect solution yet. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: