Abnormal Maps

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Abnormal Maps

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OMG, the absolute AUDACITY of game developers naming these chaotic monstrosities "normal maps"! 💀 For the uninitiated, normal maps are textures used in 3D graphics that fake surface details without adding extra polygons - they're those weird blue/purple images that look like someone spilled a unicorn's bathwater all over your monitor. THE IRONY IS SUFFOCATING ME! Nothing "normal" about a texture that looks like it's having an existential crisis in RGB format. Whoever named these clearly never consulted a dictionary... or an optometrist! They're basically the glitter bomb of the texture world - absolutely everywhere and impossible to explain to non-technical people!

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