Bump map in Arctic mode

[FilmDesigner (Scott Schneider)]

It seems bump maps dont show up in artic mode or any mode with ambient occlusion turned on. Is this a feature or a bug?

Rendered mode

AO mode

[CADARTZ]

hi scott, not sure if this works but try “display mode” under properties on the right

[FilmDesigner (Scott Schneider)]

No that doesnt do it but thanks. It seems that when using ambient occlusion as your lighting source bumps dont show up.

[stuart.crake]

Hi Scott

Not sure what the intent is and how manual you want to be with it, but, if you go to shading settings in the Arctic display mode, you can set colour and material to “Rendering Material”.

If you create a duplicate material that only has a bump map (no diffuse / colour texture) this will show up on the object you apply it to. Any object with default material assigned will look as expected in Arctic.

There is also this line in the Display Modes help page - under rendered. It didn’t seem to help when ticked in normal arctic mode.

Hope this helps.

Stuart

[FilmDesigner (Scott Schneider)]

Thank you Stuart Ill give it a shot.

[FilmDesigner (Scott Schneider)]

Yeah still not working. In version 7 or 8 . It appears that in any viewport mode when you change the scene lighting to ambient occlusion the texture disappears.

Are you using the Mac version? Im on windows.

[FilmDesigner (Scott Schneider)]

Whats odd is color texture shows up. But the bump doesnt

[stuart.crake]

I am on Mac, but I just logged on to my work pc to test and I can recreate there. I think the problem is that there is no contrast for the bump map; the light colour is white and the material is white. Try changing the material colour to 50% grey, and increase the reflectivity and reflection polish to 100%.

I’m not sure why the texture shows up and not the bump. In your display mode settings, do you have “Use Advanced GPU Lighting” ticked?

[FilmDesigner (Scott Schneider)]

Changing the reflectivity was the issue. As soon as I adjusted that it showed up. Thank you Stuart. I suppose displacement would be another work around .

[nathanletwory (Nathan 'jesterKing' Letwory)]

@FilmDesigner

I suppose displacement would be another work around

Note that displacement requires dense geometry - it is not the best if you’re looking for just the visual effect. Especially the PBR displacement in material is pretty tough to get well.

[FilmDesigner (Scott Schneider)]

Yeah thats why I was trying to find a bump solution. Displacement is nice but taxing. I Wonder if there is a work around like Modo has called “displacement as bump” .

MODO | Displacement as Bump

[nathanletwory (Nathan 'jesterKing' Letwory)]

@FilmDesigner

I Wonder if there is a work around like Modo has called “displacement as bump” .

Not that I am aware of.