Normal Maps in BLENDER - Instant Realism to Materials 

Hello! For more on normal maps, see this post: brandonsdrawings.com/normalmaps/

I love how you explain everything. Simple and effective, thank you.

Learning so much faster with your help. Thank you for everything.

Thank you so much for this explanation. This is the first video/tutorial that has actually showed the the exact thing I had trouble with.

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You deserve so many more subs than you have. The explanation in your videos are single handedly the most comprehensive I've ever seen for free. Im sharing your channel everywhere.

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This was super useful. As a complete newbie in Blender I was trying to figure out what I was doing wrong with connecting a normal map to the normal field. Now I know! Thanks!

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Thank you very much, this helped a lot! Also thank you for keeping it simple and to the point :D

Great explanation Brandon, thank you. Just tried it.....works nicely. Cheers

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Another super video. Thanks again.

2:18 is where he talks about how to use it

really Helpfull

Thanks for the awsome tutorial.

Great looking video mate cheers

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nice tutorial... greetings from Italy

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Excellent tutorial. Perfect pace and detail. I still forgot to set normal map to non color tho ;)

Hi Brandon, please als make a review on 1) BAGAPIE 2) BOTANIQ 3) GARDENER 4) GRASSBLADE 5) GRASWALD and 6) VEGETATION PRO -anyway, your videos are straight forward - I like it very much

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Thank for the tut. the fact that you have to specify the NON-COLOR thing is really annoying

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Hi, nice video thanks ! But what is the use of the "bump node" and on the principal BSDF, what is about the "Tangent" and those other things ! Thanks

Sorry for the question, will the objects created with this material system, realistic effects that are seen in Blender, give the same 3D chat effects etc ? Thank you.

Quick question: I'm sure you've used "Crazy Bump". CB produces 4 extra files: Normal, Occular, Spec, and Disp. Which one of these is the Bump Map? Is it the Disp file? THX!

Don't use normal map strength >1 easily just because it "looks better". The normal captured and represented in the map *is* meant for strength 1. If normal offset in X is -5° you want to maintain those -5° and not make it -40° or something. Using a combineXYZ set at [0.5, 0.5, 1] into a normal map node driving a sharp glossy is an easy way to illustrate what is happening with the X and Y components. Normal maps don't magically "do more" than bump maps; their benefits are producing large areas of offset normal using a single color (bump would need a fine resolution gradient) and being a simple lookup value from a texture map, whereas their drawbacks are for tangential rely on UV space to generate the correct result, cannot be easily mixed. I personally prefer to use bump maps over normal maps; they mix easily, directions and continuity can be verified using microdisplacement temporarily, can be easily drawn/modified, at the cost of being more heavy to compute since the normal now has to be calculated instead of just looked up. "Normal maps for everything" makes a lot more sense in game engines and need every fps optimization you can get. There are several issues about normal/bump maps, especially for up close use, where you should really consider microdisplacement instead especially for large frequency changes/deep modifications. Comes at a huge cost though, but will look waaaay better than the fake counterparts.

I really don't like using blueprints. I'll code in C++, C#, Rust, a custom language, idgaf I just don't like blueprints. EDIT: While messing around it seems like most of if not all of this stuff can be done from the properties tabs, and changes get reflected in the shader window. Still, it's hard to combine diferent maps, so blueprints it is ugh...

Hello, i have a question, lets say i want to darken the areas where i sculpted a dent. Is using normal maps the best way to acomplish it(imagine i drew a line and i want that line to be darker the the rest of the face)

how do we use ambient oclusions maps and other maps that come with a PBR set and that node wrangler principled setup doesnt add them or doesnt work at all if you select them?

what happens when I scale etc the colour map ?, will the normal map need to be scaled to fit ?

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Wtf if you set Roughness too high then Normal Maps don't work in Cycles ...at all. (by themselves alone)

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Absolute waste of time. Get to the point! Go to the next video everyone!

these fucking stock videos

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Your voice and the information are very clear and very concise, BUT so many "memes" turns a great tutorial in a "for Dumb" persons tutorial, and BECAUSE you ask for MONEY, you need to think and decide, DO you wanna be informative and professional or do You wanna be a dumb digital trash maker, you cannot be both at the same time.

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