The guy's over at 3Dchips-fr.com have a demo of a new 3D technique called parallax mapping or offset mapping or kind of a super bump mapping that was used in the Unreal Engine 3 tech demo!

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Note: To run the demo your going to need a DirectX 9 graphics card with pixel shaders 2.0.

Parallax Mapping Demo

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