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description: Exports surface normals in camera space.
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# Normals

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* **Output Format:** _"OpenEXR" or "PNG". Surface normals are formatted as normalized vectors in camera space (Y-up, X-right, Z-forward). In OpenEXR format, values are between -1 and 1, while in PNG format values are mapped from \[-1, 1] to \[0, 255]. "Transparent" pixels, or pixels which do not have a valid surface normal associated to them, have a value of \[0, 0, 0]._
