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#Bump map render glitch

    29-Jul-94 10:45:34
Sb: #Bump map render glitch
Fm: Richard Ciano 73443,2125
To: All
I have created an Asphalt material, default with an image of road aspalt as texture and bump map entries. I am panning around this road surface, and in certain frames, rendering in any resolution and palette combination, dithering and other settings in any combination produces wild "flashes", jaggy torn blocks of lighter or darker coloration as the camera pans around this "bumpy" surface. I am at a loss: I understand that I might have expected some interference patterns if these bumps were being treated as actual surface features (as with a CD-ROM surface) but these jaggy flashes don't really seem to conform to any pattern, or order, nor do they seem to change consistently as the road and camera change angles with respect to one another: it just seems that certain frames insist on having great blotches of dark or bright. I am at a loss.. if anyone has a thought, I would be delighted to be rescued.