$bumpmap

$bumpmap is a material shader parameter available in all Source games.

A material's albedo (left) compared to its bump map.

The above material in-game.

It specifies a texture that will provide three-dimensional lighting information for a material. The texture is a bump map, but the process it is used for is called  normal mapping. The two terms are often used interchangeably, however.

Warning:$bumpmap will disable prop_static's per-vertex lighting in every Source game before CS:GO engine branch.
Not enough data is stored in the vertices for normal mapping, so the engine has no choice but to fall back.

Important:Bumpmapped brushes and displacements generate four lightmaps per-surface (one for each light direction, plus non-bumped version), instead of one. If $bumpmap or $normalmap is added to a VMT that did not have it at the time of compilation, the map must be recompiled.

Note:This does not apply to maps compiled using the -bumpall VBSP parameter (Which creates 4 lightmaps for all faces, regardless of if they are bumpmapped). This parameter should not be used often, however, as it significantly increases lightmap usage.

Important:$bumpmap does not exist for LightmappedReflective. Use $normalmap instead.

Note:

• In the Water shader, $bumpmap is for a DX8 du/dv map. Use $normalmap instead.
• Bump maps cannot be used on decal textures except in CS:GO engine branch.
• On VertexLitGeneric using $lightwarptexture will force bumpmapping even if $bumpmap is not in the VMT. A default one is bound instead, all $bumpmap caveats come with it.

Bug: $bumpmap causes some other Parameters to not work. Parameters that will break with $bumpmap are ( but not limited to ) :

• Will not work with materials using $envmapmask. Except on VertexLitGeneric(only in ) and LightmappedGeneric(only in ). See Alternative methods.
• In LightmappedGeneric, $detailblendmode 9 cannot be used.
• In VertexLitGeneric, $detailblendmode 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 11 not usable. With $phong 5 and 6 can be used.
• In VertexLitGeneric, $detailblendmode 5-11 not usable. With $phong 5 and 6 can be used.
• In $detailtint won't work.
• $distancealpha, $outline, $softedges won't work.
• On LightmappedGeneric, cannot be used with $basealphaenvmapmask

  [todo tested in ?]

Basic Syntax

LightmappedGeneric
{
	$basetexture	brick/brickwall021a
	$surfaceprop	brick
	$bumpmap		brick/brickwall021a_normal
}

Additional Parameters

$bumptransform $bumpframe $nodiffusebumplighting $ssbump $forcebump $bump_force_on $addbumpmaps $bumpmap2 $bumpframe2 $bumptransform2 $bumpmask $bumpdetailscale1

Console Commands

mat_fastnobump <booleanRedirectInput/boolean>

Quickly enables/disabled normal mapping.

mat_normalmaps <booleanRedirectInput/boolean>

Displays the bump map texture of all materials that have one in place of their albedo.

mat_bumpmap <booleanRedirectInput/boolean>

Enable or disable normal mapping. Default 1.

See also

• $ssbump
• Bump map, for technical details and a guide to creation.