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The question came to mind.

What would Doom 3 look like with it's bumpmapping turned off?

I went into the game for a brief moment and loaded one of my savegames. A zombie soilder stepped up and promptly started shooting me at which point I shot him down. Upon the ground I took my flashlight to him and took a screenshot of his face with and without the bump mapping on.

Hence it is seen where the bump mapping starts and where the Texture mapping ends. Clearly these models where made solely for the purpose of being bump mapped as without it they appear plain looking even when compared to classic Half-life models.

What is bump mapping? It's the process of putting bumps onto an otherwise flat polygon surface. With this process you can give 3D characters very distinct facial and body features meanwhile reducing the number of polygons and texture maps needed to create the character. It also helps reduce stress on the processor since there are fewer polygons to process.

Bump mapping is a Video-acceleraton only feature that was introduced with the Geforce 3. To my knowledge it hasn't been used extensively except to make realistic water surfaces in many older games.

Description
The question came to mind.

What would Doom 3 look like with it's bumpmapping turned off?

I went into the game for a brief moment and loaded one of my savegames. A zombie soilder stepped up and promptly started shooting me at which point I shot him down. Upon the ground I took my flashlight to him and took a screenshot of his face with and without the bump mapping on.

Hence it is seen where the bump mapping starts and where the Texture mapping ends. Clearly these models where made solely for the purpose of being bump mapped as without it they appear plain looking even when compared to classic Half-life models.

What is bump mapping? It's the process of putting bumps onto an otherwise flat polygon surface. With this process you can give 3D characters very distinct facial and body features meanwhile reducing the number of polygons and texture maps needed to create the character. It also helps reduce stress on the processor since there are fewer polygons to process.

Bump mapping is a Video-acceleraton only feature that was introduced with the Geforce 3. To my knowledge it hasn't been used extensively except to make realistic water surfaces in many older games.