I think I saw a fix for this in oldbens repo
does this scheme work with procedural maps or only with image node?
With procedural maps you wouldnât really need it, as most of Blenderâs procedurals are greyscale and you can use a bump node for those, which is cheaper (and itâs also what this setup uses).
Blender 3.2 support is fixed in my fork:
Will propose the fix to oldben as well
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iâm in the process of making a tutorial on this and I was wondering if you could tell me an example of some modifiers that need to get updated every frame besides the armature modifier Iâve already made a couple tutorials on this that show how fast of a speed boost that you get on a character with an armature modifier But if I could have some other examples that would be cool too to show other benefits
When using the Normal Map node, I think everything that deforms the mesh forces the tangents to be regenerated. This includes shape keys and most modifiers.
From my testing it seems like Blender only checks if the mesh is deformed by anything thatâs effected by key frames.
This means that adding a single key frame to a modifier will make it update every frame, even if it doesnât change anything.
Aside from speeding up animation, another advantage of the technique is that it can be used to generate tangents for procedural UVs.
While the current node group isnât setup like this it should be as easy as replacing the UV map node in it with the custom UV.
The main disadvantage is that it uses the flat geometry to generate the tangents, which can lead to a faceted look when using stronger normal maps on curved surfaces.
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OK so does that mean that if I have an object that does not have an armature modifier and yet it has at least one shape key that has key frames and tangent normal maps that i will get a speed boostâŚ
andâŚdont get this partâŚcan u simplify it
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Aside from speeding up animation, another advantage of the technique is that it can be used to generate tangents for procedural UVs.
While the current node group isnât setup like this it should be as easy as replacing the UV map node in it with the custom UV.
The main disadvantage is that it uses the flat geometry to generate the tangents, which can lead to a faceted look when using stronger normal maps on curved surfaces. ââ
like how do i " replacing the UV map node in it with the custom UV. "
and you do mean your optimized normal map node group right?.. When you say the current node group isnât set up like this?
I am getting real time 24 frame per second animation in EVEE render mode on a high polycharacter with over a 100,000 faces(and strand based hair of course)⌠The character has tangent space normal maps on her shoes her shirt and her pants And thatâs it and this add on increases it to 24 FPS from 7 FPS IN RENDER MODEâŚ128 VIEWPORT SAMPLES⌠57 light bounces and ambient occlusion, screen space reflections motion blur and Bloom all enabled!.. Havenât even tested whyâŚthis is supposed to just work in eveeâŚbut I switched to cycles render mode and was getting 20 fps
how did this give you a performance boost when texture painting
can someone implement this into the default normalmapping node code?
and use automaticaly the gpu mode?
does anyone notice a huge quality drop in the custom normal map node? i am.
here is with custom normal
here is with default normal
Somebody asked a questionâŚin one of the tutorials that I made about this add on and asked me this questionâŚ
he said is there any way to improve the quality of the normals when I switch to custom it seems degraded
I havenât noticed any degradation of the normalsâŚhas anybody here?.. If so I guess I could suggest he uses Materialize software to edit his normalsâŚ
Your posts are so ornate i almost never can understand its meaning :)))
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What exactly didnât you understand so I could explain it better in the future
he is asking the same question i asked earlier . the normal map quality drops when switched to custom (addon)
pictures included above
Looks like he talks that have no such problem and proves it as he have some tutorial and suppose s that someone (? maybe you) used materializer causing degradation))