RE: tangent maps

Date : Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:26:10 -0000
To : <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
From : "Andi Farhall" <andi(at)clearpost.co.uk>
Subject : RE: tangent maps
actually i'm a bit confused as to what a tangency map is. I understood tangency to be where one curve flows cleanly into another, either that or "at 90 degrees to". I'm wrong aren't i....

Subsequently i've no idea how you would use them in the context of displacement or bump mapping... boy do i feel thick


regards

Andi

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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM]On Behalf
Of Bernard Lebel
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:08 PM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: tangent maps


Bumpmap and displacementmap substitution, we do a lot of em.


Cheers
Bernard



On 1/24/07, Andi Farhall <andi(at)clearpost.co.uk> wrote:
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> Do have tangent maps have any other uses apart from hair instance
> orientation? without scripting stuff that is...
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> regards
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> Andi
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