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Forum Archive › Why do we need an alpha channel in the saved normal map? › Reply To: Why do we need an alpha channel in the saved normal map?
This is answered later in the course. I didn’t realize that each Boulder would be textured separately in the end. The alpha is required when consolidating into a final set of textures. The consolidated one doesn’t need alpha.
