I was wondering, do you first bake your normal maps, ambient, and specular maps then use a environment light? if your doin...

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I was wondering, do you first bake your normal maps, ambient, and specular maps then use a environment light? if your doing an out door scene?

Answer 1 · 2015-07-31T18:00:59Z

Kent Trammell replied July 31, 2015 6:00pm

In what context do you mean? Like for a game/realtime situation? Baking normal maps, ambient, and specular maps isn't tied in anyway to environment lighting in my general workflow...

Answer 2 · 2015-08-15T03:58:35Z

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replied August 15, 2015 3:58am

by this I notice a sun lamp helps bring out my normal maps compared to using a plane with emission, so I am wondering if you bake the normal's with the sun then use environment lighting?