Bumpmapping Shader

Greetings,

I was wondering if someone could offer a bit of an explanation about how this effect works and how to use it. I have some familiarity with 3D shaders - wherein a single object would have multiple textures (e.g. diffuse, normal, specular, etc.). Obviously in 3D, these effects work in coordination with a static lighting system.

In Construct2, we don't have a lighting system. What are the parallels, if any between, bump map effect in a 3D environment, and the bump effect used here? What kind of images will produce the best results? The pipeline I am use to would be such that I would take an image, bring it into photoshop, and then use the NVidia plugin to generate a normal map.

So far, I have not been able to understand how to use this effect in any of the way I am accustomed. Any help and insight is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

I see. Thank you and thanks for the example in the other thread. I should have spotted that..or used the search function. :P

Edit: Your example really illustrates it beautifully. Double thanks.

Edited by srealist - 29 Aug 2012 at 9:31pm

shinkan wrote: http://www.scirra.com/forum/bumpmap-effect_topic55996.html?KW=bumpmap In C2 bumpmap is more like a specular.

didn't opened here the example.. link is working?

Very beautiful bumpmap effect example @shinkan