Just want to make sure everybody realizes I already attached my proposal for a patch in my previous e-mail to this discussion. There's also a comment I put in on why etc. Please check it out.
Morten. On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Daniel Salazar - 3Developer.com < zan...@gmail.com> wrote: > right.. we could come up with a million analogies for one or the other > side. Anyway I've done some investigation and the other mainstream > software I checked all use white for height an black for down. We > could have a fix like the one they did for normal maps > > cheers > > Daniel Salazar > www.3developer.com > > > > 2011/2/28 Sean Olson <seanol...@gmail.com>: > > Wow, it seems like this is the rare issue where all seem to be in > agreement! > > Seems white = up, black = down. Though my word does not carry much > weight > > I would like to give a +1 to making it this way. > > > > And I might as well throw my little analogy here - For bump mapping I > always > > thought of snow. As snow piles up, things get more white. As snow goes > > away, things of course turn more brown/black. Yet another of the > seemingly > > endless analogies for black equaling crevasses and white equaling peaks. > > Hope this proposal goes through! > > > > -Sean > > > > 2011/2/25 Ρυακιωτάκης Αντώνης <kal...@gmail.com> > > > >> I think black=crevice white=peak is the convention too. Most(all?) of > the > >> bump-mapping related papers I've seen are written on this premise. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Bf-committers mailing list > >> Bf-committers@blender.org > >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > ||------------------ Instant Messengers ---------------------- > > || ICQ at 11133295 > > || AIM at shatterstar98 > > || MSN Messenger at shatte...@hotmail.com > > || Yahoo Y! at the_7th_samuri > > ||---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > > Bf-committers mailing list > > Bf-committers@blender.org > > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers