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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Crazy Bump : make normal, displacement, occlusion, specular and diffuse map easy

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Hell_666
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Posted: 22nd Aug 2010 20:41 Edited at: 22nd Aug 2010 20:42
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Hello, I don't know if you know this freeware, it's called "Crazy Bump", it's awesome, easy of use and there are many details to adjust your texture.

The website : http://www.crazybump.com

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KISTech
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Posted: 22nd Aug 2010 21:46
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Yeah, except it's NOT freeware.

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Hell_666
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Posted: 22nd Aug 2010 22:20
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This software is free, it's already in beta I believe, but you can buy a license too, but the demo version isn't restricted.

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Green Gandalf
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Posted: 22nd Aug 2010 22:25 Edited at: 22nd Aug 2010 22:41
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It's not free - but the demo is.

Edit Extract from the demo license:

Quote: "RESTRICTIONS
You MAY NOT: (a) use this software after the evaluation period of 30 days;"


Did you read the license?

[But, such things are not always to be taken at face value - I've been using the trial version of WinRAR for a very long time. Perhaps I can expect a visit from the Internet police any day now ...]
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Hell_666
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Posted: 22nd Aug 2010 22:47 Edited at: 22nd Aug 2010 22:48
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Ok, who buy the winrar license ?

It's free for me

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Benjames8
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Posted: 22nd Aug 2010 22:49 Edited at: 22nd Aug 2010 23:26
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I've had crazy bump demo for longer then 30 days i think?
[edit] O' no expires in 4 day ( . is there another freeware program of the sorts?
[edit] Im looking into a freeware program called xNormal.
[edit] seems to work good with heightmaps. meh
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KISTech
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Posted: 23rd Aug 2010 22:02
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Quote: "Ok, who buy the winrar license ?

It's free for me "


Just because it continues to work past it's evaluation period, doesn't mean it's free. They do expect you to follow the license agreement that you probably agreed to but didn't read (nobody does) when you installed the program.

That being said, I have to admit to not purchasing WinRAR either.

For business purposes though, if I were making my own textures for a commercial game, I would happily purchase CrazyBump.

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Posted: 23rd Aug 2010 22:08
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Lol. This post makes me smile. Crazy bump, I can only imagine was called that for the basic reason it is a crazy price! It is a great looking tool, but that much just for creating bump maps? Not for me, I don't have that much money to spend. Never tried the demo beyond a quick try and delete lol, might be worth a try for longer by the sounds. If I have a game I think I can sell, hell I can pay the cash for a license then. Until then, and unfortunately I think it will be some wait, it will have to...wait lol.

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Dr Tank
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Posted: 23rd Aug 2010 23:00
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xNormal is free.

http://www.xnormal.net/1.aspx
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DVader
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Posted: 23rd Aug 2010 23:38
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Will have to try it, when I get to the stage of needing eye candy in a project. Had a quick browse of the site, not quite as obvious from a glance that it produces bump maps and such. But I will assume you have played with it
What I really want to play with is 3D scanning tech for models and textures Obviously Nextgen is awesome but too much money. I recently tried a program which uses a web cam and a printed square sheet.
Ic3D or something along that lines. It didn't work very well with my setup though. I can only think my light source was inadequate or the cam itself, as my bro managed better results on his machine(and it's only a mac mini with multiple os installed). Not sure if video performance on one of those is better than a Geforce 7900 GT. Could be, I have a 9 card but have problems with it, so use the 7 one for now Could be the psu, but I have a horrible feeling it is the card

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KISTech
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Posted: 24th Aug 2010 00:20 Edited at: 24th Aug 2010 00:22
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In it's defense, it's much more than just bump maps.

If your 9 card is an eVGA, download their Precision app that let's you control the card and turn the memory speed down a bit. My 9800GT came preset to 850MHz and kept corrupting textures and crashing the system. As soon as I turned it down to 800MHz the problem stopped.

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Posted: 24th Aug 2010 02:13
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Oh when I tried crazy bump I had my gf9 card in. it worked fine. My video problem was on reboot I lost the picture to my screen and had to restart about 20 times to randomly get it back. Even then it was stuck in a crazy low res for a standard monitor, and I have a Dell 30" it looked horrid I can tell you.
Absoluteley NOTHING to do with crazy bump I may add. Just my system, or rather the card being dodgy since the moment I purchased it. Friends and family eh lol. Still I hope that it is psu problems and will be able to upgrade once I can force myself to spend money on a boring psu unit lol.

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Travis Gatlin
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Posted: 30th Aug 2010 03:06
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there is a normals map plug in for Gimp.

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KISTech
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Posted: 30th Aug 2010 19:46
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There's also a normal map plugin from NVidia for Photoshop that also works in Paint Shop Pro.

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Quote: "there is a normals map plug in for Gimp."

That's the one I use, it's really simple and GIMP is a must anyway!!

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Travis Gatlin
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Exactly, i love it, i can make normal maps with ease and they are really good

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Crazy Bump, is quiet pricey for what it does, the results though are
really great. Saved me from optimizing Normal Maps through the RGB channels. But I moved to XNormal, truthfully an excellent tool and for free. I'm using it to bake my normal maps, ambient occlusion and base maps. I highly recommend it !

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Travis Gatlin
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Posted: 3rd Sep 2010 03:37
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it is, ive tried it but ive never Tried xnormal, but i prefer gimps plugin because i do all of my editing im gimp and all i have to do to make a normal map is just click on the Normalmap icon and i got a normal map, not load into another program

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