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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[Image:door_diff.jpg|right|frame|A diffuse map of a door.]]<br />
A diffuse map is a texture you use to define a surface's main colour.<br />
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In order to work well with a normal map and a specular map, a good diffuse texture should not have any directional lighting included, it should only have generic "ambient occlusion" - ie. the surface gets darker in deep cracks and around embossed details. If you are generating your normal maps from high-poly geometry, you should bake a matching ambient occlusion pass from the geometry and multiply this on top of your diffuse texture to make sure that the lighting matches the normal map.<includeonly><br />
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