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It's been happening the last couple of days, but whenever I attach the Bump node to diffuse or any other property, the mesh becomes darker and it gains dark blocky shadows, it almost looks like I've applied the toon shader on it. No matter how my times I use the subsurface tool, the shadows never smooth out and I never get my bump map effect. This is the exact beginning setup that I've done on multiple occasions, but recently it's been wigging out on me, I want to know the reason why it's doing this.

Edit The Second image is me doing the same beginning node setup with the outcome looking way different. There's something I'm missing but I don't know what enter image description here

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  • $\begingroup$ You are having an incorrect node setup mate, there should be also a glossy shader connected to mix shader and then connect the bump map to both diffuse and glossy. Only having a mix shader don't make bumps, the result will be the same if you directly connect diffuse to material output. $\endgroup$
    – Yash
    Mar 4, 2019 at 5:19
  • $\begingroup$ See also blender.stackexchange.com/questions/60644/… $\endgroup$
    – Yash
    Mar 4, 2019 at 5:27
  • $\begingroup$ Also your light position may be incorrect. $\endgroup$
    – Yash
    Mar 4, 2019 at 5:30
  • $\begingroup$ Added a second photo showing an example. I use Mix shader for Fresnel and Glossy. It's worked before. $\endgroup$
    – B.Mation
    Mar 4, 2019 at 5:30
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    – user1853
    Mar 4, 2019 at 5:50

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As cegaton said, connect your Image texture node to Height socket instead of Normal.
Also change the first dropdown from Color to Non-color data.

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