How to prevent Normal Maps from fading off on dark spots?

[blackheart612]

Here goes a pic. Not really a huge problem but is there a way?

[CaptainKipard]

Your best bet is to contact Squad and ask them nicely to rewrite the shader. It looks as if the lighting in the game is a single light source and a whole lot of ambient light. Ambient light does not cast shadows, and does not interact with normal maps. I'm guessing doing something realistic would need to be coded and would probably eat into CPU time a little.

[blackheart612]

Well if there aren't any solutions as to what it is now, I totally have no problem with that.

[Nazari1382]

You add the bumps to the diffuse in photoshop, or for a more complicated part, you bake ambient occlusion.

[blackheart612]

They have AOs but not with the bumps. You're right about adding the diffuse on PS. I should do that.