relief/parallax mapping

Date : Sat, 24 Dec 2005 16:07:36 -0800
To : XSI(at)Softimage.COM
From : Gene Crucean <genecrucean(at)gmail.com>
Subject : relief/parallax mapping
I was talking with a friend about this today (yes I know it's Christmas eve) and started wondering if there are any technical differences between relief and parallax shaders. Maybe I'm way off but I've been under the impression that they are one in the same, just with different names. I'm probably behind in my learning with this so feel free to slap me with the old school stick. I need to do some testing with the parallax shader anyway.

FYI... http://www.chaosgroup.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13906

Check out the difference between these two.

Normal map:
http://www.visualboo.com/misc/render_scene_normal.jpg

Relief:
http://www.visualboo.com/misc/render_scene_relief.jpg


Merry Christmas guys!


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-gc

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