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3 Dimensional Chat / any free photoshop plugins for diffuse, bump, specular maps etc?

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JZ28
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Posted: 12th Jun 2009 22:32 Edited at: 25th Aug 2013 01:37
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Sid Sinister
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This photoshop normal map plugin is widely used, as is Crazy Bump. Crazy Bump also makes it really easy to make Spec maps.

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Oolite
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Theres been a few posts around here on making different types of maps, search.
As for the plugins, the nvidia normal map one is pretty good, but always need a lot of cleaning up before it looks half decent, your best bet is to learn yourself, it doesn't really take long to get the basics of each type of mapping down, but it takes a lot of practice to get them looking really good.

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It does take a little cleaning up, but you have a lot of control over it. Also, with photoshop, you can create different normal maps for fine detail, medium detail, and large detail, and blend all those maps together to get a really polished result. That's why it's so popular.

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Oolite
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The point i was trying to make (just so he doesn't get the wrong idea) is that its not a one button jobby, you can't just click a single button and have a decent normal map. It takes more work than that.

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Oolite: what would be the fun with one button clicking?


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Alucard94
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If you're running Windows and have Photoshop go right ahead and use the Nvidia plugin, it works great for normal maps and such, I also believe that there's a standalone ATI application that does the same thing out there somewhere.


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What about Mac then Alucard? Have you found any good one?

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Alucard94
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Painfully enough, no. For whatever idiotic reason it seems as one of the only ones available for mac is the "Normal Map Generator" (NMG) which is a tiny little software that generates soggy normal maps and only allows you to change the size of them. And it's a resource hog for whatever reason.
For mac I just either do the normal mapping through something like Zbrush or get parallels started with Crazybump.


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