what is....

[Duff-e]

parallax mapping

i was reading a review and it kept coming up

[InsaneSingingBlender]

its kinda like bump mapping i think

http://www.infiscape.com/rd.html

[Pericolos0]

yeh it makes the bumpmaps look really 3d by parallaxing the pixels according to your viewpoint

like the stones on this wall:

[insta]

It's the next big thing

[mikezilla]

its actually a clever trick more than actual technology.

When you generate a normal map it uses hellamath to calculate a series of normal maps that essentially stack on top of each other. So its many normal maps that Parallax scroll.

Like I said cool trick.

[Duff-e]

what game is that peri?

[skdr]

Looks like the new unreal tech.

[Section_Ei8ht]

yeah, thats a screenie from Unreal 3

[Nazul]

ah ! that's unbel.. unreal

[JynxDaddy]

Thats damn awsome.