G...G...Google! It's your best friend in the world of programming. Also, you might want to check out developer.nvidia.com, and search Google for stuff on ARB_fragment_program, ARB_texture_env_combine, ARB_texture_env_dot3 and NV_register_combiners. This is the main tutorial for bumpmapping with nvidia's register combiners: A Practical and Robust Bump-mapping Technique. However, bumpmapping can be a difficult topic, and many of the papers you'll find will be difficult to understand. The paper above is very math-heavy, but the code to implement bumpmapping is there. Just read the whole paper, ignore the mathmatical derivation of Blinn's original method at the top (it's university-level advanced calculus integration anyway), and read Kilgard's method and code underneath, which is actually quite easy to understand once you read through it a few times...

EDIT: Oh, and try www.ati.com/developer/, too...


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[edited by - iNsAn1tY on July 8, 2003 6:39:44 PM]

It usually depends on the object. If it requires a bumpmap, then it has one, but all you do is disable the register combiners on polygons which don't have a bumpmap associated with them. This is a situation which would be solved with a shader language. You associate a shader with a polygon, and the shader contains the information about the polygon, like if it has a bumpmap or not, the name of it's texture, etc...


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[edited by - iNsAn1tY on July 8, 2003 6:44:57 PM]