Hi, I’m using blender 2.8 (latest beta atm). Following Blender Guru’s anvil series with minor changes. For some strange reason, when I’m trying to use the Bump node, I get this crappy looking pixelated normals:
The bump map is 2k and painted in blender, but it really doesn’t matter which map I feed to the bump node, the result is always pixelated. Is it a bug? Tried different 2.8 versions, no luck. Or maybe I’m missing something? I understand that 2k isn’t enough for close look but shouldn’t it be blurry instead of this?
You are looking for bit depth per channel not per pixel. It says “32” … So is that 16 per channel grayscale + alpha or is that 8 per channel RGB + alpha?
It is a black & white bump map plugged into the bump node which output is going to normal input of the shader. I tried to use different b&w images, the result is always blocky.
That is likely your problem. Try creating a new image in the imaged editor. And make it a 16bit file. See if that will work better(it should). 32bpp(bits per pixel) would be best, but understandably much heavier.
I’m not sure if it’s relevant but when I’m painting scratches (following the tutorial), the image itself comes pixelated. Especially when I turned on random angle. And paint it with small brush size. Is it supposed to be like that?
I’m guessing you have been doing the painting in 3D view. There were previously 2 problems. Switching to 32bit images has solved one. The other is that as you paint in 3D view the stroke is painted according to viewport resolution then projected/baked into the texture. Thus the resolution mismatch.
I’d also try lowering the distance value of the bump node. Overall though zooming in this far I’d always expect to see some pixelation.
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Also, you should try using a mid-gray as your basis and paint with gray’s surrounding that. This way you can draw actual bumps as well as cavities and you wont be using as extreme values as black and white. Generally speaking you should avoid absolute black and white(and above).
Ok spent some more time with it and I have found one issue with the texture painting in 2.80: Brush stroke spacing. Crank it all the way down to 1%. It helps but depending on brush size even the minimum value might not be enough.
The distance value isn’t doing much as for me. Maybe that’s bc of the pure b&w without gray. I’ll try that.
Overall though zooming in this far I’d always expect to see some pixelation.
Is it just a bump thing? Because normals, for example, don’t seem pixelated to me, neither diffuse or other textures. They’re just blurry when you zoom in too close. And this bump gives really sharp pixels without blur. Even with small height value. Even on the larger distance you can recognize strange pixelated grid on your model.
How should I issue a report?