Cineversity

Hello, I’m trying to get comfortable using the material node editor and came up against my first challenge regarding bump/normals;

Is it possible to use noise nodes like noise, complex noise, veins etc as a bump map using the material node system?

I tried going through the “normal”, “normalize” and “displacement” node first before plugging into the normal input of the diffuse node and it doesn’t work!
I remember in prior versions of c4d, to use the normalizer, the noise node had to be set to UV mode rather than world, but you could get around this by just plugging it into the bump channel instead.
But now we no longer have a bump channel, so what is the work-around?

Thanks!
Nick

Hi Nick,

Yes, the Normal input deliers what is needed. To get the right information, use the Bump-Map node.
Have a look at the scene file below:
Scene file:
https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share/WMjhXl41PBpYjFVQwCKS5gKMPU1Vw8QpA8iXavIJ8OH
Screen shot
https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share/5CO4hRe1sibeUjnpiSAAVaM3tqmo6XKSHnO6tnKr0Vn

All the best

Thanks Dr.Sassi!

You’re very welcome, Nick, thanks for taking the time!