# Bump mapping

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bump-mapping/54179>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [June 11, 2004, 5:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bump-mapping/54179 "2004-06-11T17:53:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![vladdrac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f05b48/32.png) [@vladdrac](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/vladdrac)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 5:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bump-mapping/54179/1 "2004-06-11T17:53:17Z")

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I have been trying to learn bump mapping, and I was completely blown away at what you can accomplish doing this in max. This is the first experimental image that I used. Pretty much used some default library images, except for the background scene, which is a hdri (something else I am trying to learn).

I thought the image was awesome so I am going to post it. Any suggestions on how to improve it would be appreciated. Like what I don’t really like about it is that the cracks are bumpy as well. All that was applied to the bump map was noise.

[![](http://www.vladdracworld.com/web_images/max/table_small.jpg)](http://www.vladdracworld.com/web_images/max/table.jpg)