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Kiggles

Normal Maps

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Some other issues with Normal Mapping.


First, foliage luminescence explodes, making night not look so nighty.

Second, while I think nighttime generally appears a better with Normals OFF, there are still a few objects that are permanently Full-Bright

Compare Normals ON
https://imgur.com/ZssGbdf

https://imgur.com/fHWrjcn

v Normals OFF

https://imgur.com/mzVctlm
https://imgur.com/C4XFWnI


One other 'issue'. Normals OFF results in some objects not being illuminated by dynamic lights (just turn on a lantern at night). Not sure if this was typical behavior before recent 'modern renderer' updates, but for a lot of the personally unattractive light artifacts that 

 

Win10 
AMD RX480 GPU - driver 20.9.2

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