Need Bent normals sample files and more info please.

[Sam_Deiter]

@William_K

1 - How do you plug bent normals? in the doc i only see a node plugged to nowhere.

All you have to do is add the Bent Normal output node to the Material Graph and then plug your Bent Normal map into it. You can find it by searching for it in the pallet. You should also make sure that you have something input into your Ambient Occlusion (AO) and Normal map input on your Material. The following image shows exactly how this should be set up

@William_K

2 - do i still need my normal maps along with bent normals?

Yes, you still need Normal maps and AO maps when using Bent Normals.

@William_K

3 - how do you plug it in order to occlude reflections as well as all the rest, does this automatically happen when you plug it into AO? how do you plug it into AO? etc…

This should happen when you plug your AO map into the Ambient Occlusion input like in the following image.

@William_K

Lastly they mention in the doc that you could do this in substance painter, but like you I couldn’t find the settings, perhaps a hint or some explanation there by Epic or someone can help us both.

Make sure you are using Substance Designer 6 and should be able to bake this just like any other map. You can also read more about how to do this on the following page.

https://support.allegorithmic.com/documentation/display/SD46/Bakers