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Revision as of 04:10, 26 August 2018
$ssbump is a boolean material parameter that flags a $bumpmap texture as being self-shadowing. It is only supported on LightmappedGeneric
and WorldVertexTransition
and requires the Orange Box.
Standard bump maps only darken texels that are facing away from a light source. Self-shadowing bump maps darken both texels facing away and also any texels which are 'behind' them. You can read more about the technology behind it in this paper.

Example
LightmappedGeneric
{
$basetexture nature/rockwall_cave02a
$surfaceprop concrete
$bumpmap nature/rockwall_cave_02a_height-ssbump
$ssbump 1
$SSBumpMathFix 1 // seen in L4D2, modifies the amount of light received. Can be any number (0 removes the effect)
}
Limitations
The shadows cast by the bump map are permanently baked into the texture, meaning that they can only appear in one of three predefined locations. height2ssbump
generates shadows for light arriving from the right, top-left, and bottom-left of the texture. If light arrives from between those directions (such as from the left), the nearest available baked shadows are blended between, producing an acceptable but hardly ideal image.
Additionally, in order to preserve the illusion of height, low areas of a SSBumped material will receive less light even if it arrives head-on. This can look odd if you have too intense (rugged) a SSBump.
Creation
You need to use height2ssbump
, a command line SDK tool. The command is:
height2ssbump <options> <path\to\heightmap.tga> <float|bumpscale>
The output is <input name>-ssbump.tga
, in the same folder as the input file. Bumpscale
controls the intensity of the ssbump (i.e. coarseness of the surface).

You can use normal2ssbump
, another SDK tool, to generate an SSBump from a normal bump map (as opposed to a height or displacement map) - Unlike height2ssbump
you do not need to run through the command line or use any additional parameters; simply drag-and-drop your normal map onto the program or a shortcut.

Options
- <path/filename>
- The source heightmap (TGA format).
- -r <int>
- Set the number of 'rays' (default 250). More rays take more time.
- -f <int>
- Set smoothing filter radius (default 10; 0 disables).
- -n
- Generate a conventional bump map as
<input name>-bump.tga
. - -A
- Generate ambient occlusion in the alpha channel.
- -D
- Write out filtered result as
filtered.tga
.
Third Party Tools
Third-party tools capable of generating SSbump maps:
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