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No bump when using bumpmap generator with spatial texture projection

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Symptom

When using the bumpmap generator and a 'Spatial' texture projection, the bumpmap is not seen in the render

example of render tree.

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Cause In the Bump map generator>Bump mapping> Clamp is turned on. This causes the texture to be clamped at the scene origin.

Solution Disable the Bump map generator>Bump mapping> Clamp option. The results of the bumpmap operator will then be visible.

Applies To: XSI 3.5.x on NT,Win2K,Linux

Posted: 1/12/2004