Normal Maps Explained in Simple Terms

What are normal maps in 3D modeling? Normal maps explained in simple terms in this tutorial. Another Blender for game development technical video.

00:00:00 Intro
00:00:18 Image file data
00:01:34 What is non-color data?
00:02:35 Texel colors are vectors in 3D Space
00:03:12 Displacing vertexes with texel data
00:04:48 Displacement vs. Normal maps
00:05:54 What are normals?
00:07:35 Displacing normals with texel data
00:09:15 Bump maps

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