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Guillaume Lalonde
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Would be nice to be able to use height maps for textures. 

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Floriaan
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What would be the difference with normal maps?
Floriaan Ganzevoort
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Guillaume Lalonde
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Height maps imitate depth. So for example tree bark can have a height map to simulate the cracks and ridges and it will/should cast shadows. 

It's part of PBRs. 

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