Hi Adam, for scaling the strength of normal maps you could try the Mix8Vectors Shader by Daniel Rind. You find it on http://rray.de/xsi/
Stephan. am Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2012 um 08:14 schrieben Sie: So, My Softimage decided to play hardball with me and stopped working earlier this evening. What I had wanted to test out tonight were Normal Maps in Softimage. I don't do a whole lot of texturing , and have known the normal map to be a little strange in my past dealings with it. One of my students is having an issue generating normal maps out of mudbox and getting them to work in Softimage. Is anyone having success with this, or do you generally import high res meshes into soft and use Ultimapper to create the maps. When creating maps, is it best to create 16 bit or float maps/ Do they always give superior results to 8 bit? My main issue with the normal maps out of Mudbox, is that they don't look like the correct scale or relief of the normals mesh in midbox, or even when I apply the normals to a similar mesh in Maya, and the fact the normal map 3 node doesnt allow us to scale normals is a bit perplexing. The workaround with mixing the normal map with a mix 2 color node set to mix with RGB at .5 and B at 1 doesn't quite cut it.. Is there a good working solution that I am simply missing? A better normalMap node perhaps? Irie.. Adam -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen Stephan Hempel mailto:[email protected]
