From the course: Cert Prep: Unity Certified Associate Game Developer Materials and Lighting
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Textures and normal maps - Unity Tutorial
From the course: Cert Prep: Unity Certified Associate Game Developer Materials and Lighting
Textures and normal maps
- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to look at normal map textures. These are special kinds of image files that can control how bumpy or smooth a surface inside our scene can look. To demonstrate normal maps and how to control them, I've opened up the sample scene that comes with all High-Definition Render Pipeline projects. That's right, it's this bizarre construction scene that you see in front of you here, and down inside the Project panel in the Assets, ExampleAssets, Materials folder, you'll find a big selection of materials that come with this project, and pretty much each of these materials is present inside this scene. Now, some of these materials do not have normal maps and some do. Let's take a look at a material that does have a normal map and see how that is set up. I'm going to move down here to the Project panel, select the ground material, and when I select that from the Inspector we get a…
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