koobas.hobune.stream
bump maping and texturing
is there any way to make a material that has a bump map but no texture? because it seems that the bump map only shows through only in the places that the texture shows
Are you using the default shaders? If you are just remove the texture and your object will still be normal mapped.
also i only wont to have a bump map but have the texture be alpha
The default shaders reads the alpha on the main tex for everything but parallax mapping. So what I would do is make a plain white image with an alpha channel then a second texture with the normal map. You can change the main color to make the object whatever color you want. Other than that I cannot seem to figure out your problem because the normal map works without a color texture just fine for me.
If you find an answer useful you could at least clik and vote it up...
Maybe I am wrong but I think he wants to simulate refraction on a windows by using only normal maps and making it transparent. Well, that's impossible. If it is transparent, you will not see the normals, unless it is only "a bit" transparent. There's a nice shader around for glass but it needs Pro version.
