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FPSC Classic Product Chat / How to create bump and normal maps ?

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RelMayer
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Posted: 4th Jul 2009 17:09
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Hi there, did someone knows a FREE program which allow to create bump and normal maps ?


(I know, my english is awful, i'm sorry for this inconvinience )
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Sandante
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Posted: 4th Jul 2009 18:41
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You could use "Gimp" it is free and you can make normal maps,
for bump i dont know for sure.
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RelMayer
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Posted: 4th Jul 2009 18:43
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OK, thanks.
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Kravenwolf
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Posted: 5th Jul 2009 03:44 Edited at: 5th Jul 2009 04:56
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A normal map is a bump map

Quote: "Bump mapping is a computer graphics technique where at each pixel, a perturbation to the surface normal of the object being rendered is looked up in a texture map and applied before the illumination calculation is done (see, for instance, Phong shading). The result is a richer, more detailed surface representation that more closely resembles the details inherent in the natural world. Normal and parallax mapping are the most commonly used bump mapping techniques."



Here's the normal map plugin for GIMP:
http://www.devmaster.net/forums/showthread.php?t=4025

Tutorial:
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=153680&b=21


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RelMayer
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Posted: 5th Jul 2009 13:50
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Thanks
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meteorite
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Posted: 6th Jul 2009 19:34
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Plus in GIMP there is a bump mpa feature that comes with it

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Dark Goblin
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well the normal map plugin for GIMP is not that good.

I prefere Programs like Crazybump...

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cram
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Posted: 6th Jul 2009 21:00
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Crazybump is not free
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Aaagreen
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Posted: 6th Jul 2009 21:37
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However if you are not willing to donate a small bit of money to get better results than crap free plugins that create sharp, crap normal maps then that's the attitude you need.


http://www.moddb.com/mods/torn
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CoffeeGrunt
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I use XNormal instead, it has a cool feature that converts black and white images into normal maps, and another that converts textures too, it's pretty useful...oh, and it's free...

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Omegamer
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Use normalmaps with one of Creator of Zombie´s shaders to get the best result!!!

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