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Is it possible to get lighting that's as accurate as BiDir without having to use my CPU? I'm playing with photonGI and stuff but it doesn't seem to produce as realistic of a result.


Not with Luxcore, I think. I like bidir too, and I think that's the only option to get beautiful images is to ...

One, how do I use normal maps? All I see is a "Bump" input on any shader I create.

You load the normalmap via the image texture node and enable "Normalmap". This will turn the output of the image node into a bump socket which you can connect to the material's bump socket.

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Is it possible to get lighting that's as accurate as BiDir without having to use my CPU? I'm playing with photonGI and stuff but it doesn't seem to produce as realistic of a result.

P.S Thanks for all of the answers!

I'm most accustomed to cycles, so I have a few questions.

One, how do I use normal maps? All I see is a "Bump" input on any shader I create.

Two, why do my glass materials not bounce any light inside of them unless I use a mesh with emission on it?

Three, in relation to the above problem, normal ...