Normal map fails to show :(

Support Materials and Textures
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Hi all,

Here’s how the low res with the normal map renders now"

http://a5zi3w.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pfZlqR0taefzBnGhbpOYgt0NkRBwz6SEgODtH5wOtJyMad5s6iqmi4ZNXf1exFQl0LOugVyhfAgl6Cp1WrEIxb29pkqjN0-Ua/rend_nonorm.PNG

Here’s the high res model:
http://a5zi3w.bay.livefilestore.com/y1px4CkNcppSz-SVpgrCvT492hhZXwixslO_3D5HT5jb-1SV5E-acJdQzLWtx8rcR1mz76n7Skn9csMYc-mSy8YM5Zmbmkgm-9u/rend_hires.PNG
As you can see the cup detail doesn’t show in the low res :frowning:

This is the normal map (from the Material preview):
http://a5zi3w.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pJhJ6u0FF1USuqgrMsYvcc3jXFaT_dCDFBpDj6s3XwebQuYbT_YM6jiG_DjhqrCb8j69u6wb2nTiTmTBDvMMZGJIikDJE2TsP/nor_prev02.PNG

Funny that we can see the cup details in the Material preview:
http://a5zi3w.bay.livefilestore.com/y1ptu3Xask29ClNhLCvTyVR2nQ2aqTpuBG1g633MJ4wdQlNEtYRj-R0DyW2k32iz1uQsb7I621Ab9YIhGHvgZsI64cdddCCS39V/nor_prev.PNG

Here are my settings:
http://a5zi3w.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pZbUBZq6q8J9je8EcC8IyxrJ0BTjrX--6VRGo1twoCcHx6cgnt-cqzEwN8btpIAnfypZb_uDjfkA6-iYdFDaV8srqSHyvR4HJ/nor_sets01.PNG

http://a5zi3w.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pzx2dzaml8UNMUR30Vws0cd2CRHagIX05lmKeGQVhbxXh8IUsPpYCS-qTvHk1AKLwEvrErAaRA4OzFQfa03yXDxcJhyKJ9y82/nor_sets02.PNG

Thanks in advance guys,

JDL

2

Easy,you need a UV map,fore some strange reason. Just select all the faces ,use “U” and then “Smart Project” & now it should render.

3

How would you create the texture and normal map without uv unwrapping the object to begin with.

Richard

4

oh,that’s right…well then I have no idea,why it won’t show,sorry :frowning:

5

Someone else from another forum helped me finding the reason.
Sorry I didn’t come back to check before.
For some reason it takes a long time for blenderartists.org to email me the alerts.

Thank you anyway guys :slight_smile:

JDL