The Normal Map Models Thread

[DeepOmega]

So, at Renzatic's request, I'm going through and making models to match up with some of the textures we have - these models will then be used to generate normal maps. Technology is sexy.

 

 

Left: flat rectangle

Middle: Untextured model

Right: Textured model

 

Since I'm running Max R6, I haven't generated the normal map yet, but this is two minutes of work once I have my copy of 7 again.

 

More to come later.

[DeepOmega]

Tile floor. Same organization.

 

[Renzatic]

 

Good job for today. Do 2 more tomorrow and I'll spare the whip.

 

Oh yeah, don't be too afraid to make the surfaces a bit uneven in some instances. The tiles in particular would do good with some slight noise along the surface to make it look a bit rougher.

[DeepOmega]

Guess what came today?

 

 

 

 

 

Bam. Will put the .tga files on the ftp, I guess?

 

Edit: I didn't add any noise to it, so it's very smooth - but this is very fixable in photoshop. If you really want, I'll do it in 3D, but it's not necessary.

 

Double Edit: Nevermind. Roughed it up myself.

Edited February 3, 2005 by DeepOmega

[BlackThief]

well to be honest the window looks IMO better with the ps-generated normalmap.

your normalmap is much too clean - it doesn't look real anymore.

and BTW you have to invert the normalmap for D3 - means you need the exact opposite of your normalmap, but I guess you can adjust that in the normalmap generator.

[Renzatic]

I checked out the window and find myself half and half on it. On one hand the depth it awesome, it actually looks like it's set inside the frame now, but on the other it's missing the roughness that makes it look like medieval glass.

 

Great job, but needs a little more before I'll say it's complete.

[DeepOmega]

Is the PS-generated map lying around anywhere? Would be good if I could take a look at it.

[BlackThief]

it's on CVS and maybe still on the ftp.

[DeepOmega]

Best of both worlds, my friends.

 

 

[DeepOmega]

New texture - city_door01

 

 

 

Where do you want the actual tga? I can put it on CVS or FTP.

[Renzatic]

Whoa, swanky.

 

Upload it to the FTP and put em in their own folder for easy grabbing...call it DeepOnormals or something like that.

 

Oh yeah, I'm about to be hitting you up for some Max 7 help here soon, so prepare yourself.

[Dram]

Just out of interest, how would i go about creating normal maps?

[Renzatic]

You can do em in photoshop by hand, but the results are usually less than perfect in my opinion.

 

The best way to do it would be to make a model in Max or Lightwave and export the normal from there.

[Dram]

Ahh, thanks Renz. Also, what about modeling

 

Joking off course

Edited February 9, 2005 by Dram

[DeepOmega]

It's on FTP, under /TheDarkMod/Textures/DeepO_Normals/

 

I also put the window model there (will post in the right thread for that, as well). Enjoy.

[pakmannen]

Cool normals. Good work!

[alan9000]

Deep omega... how did you do the normal map for the city door?? I undersand the process of creating Nmaps on models using two differant res meshes but how did you generate all that wood detail on the city door ??

[oDDity]

THe fine detail can be retrieved through the normal map filter for photoshop, or the fine detail can be saved as an ordinary bump map and blended with the normal map in the shader.

[DeepOmega]

Oddity's right - I just used the normals we'd already generated in photoshop. They're really not that good, nor are they that accurate - but they add slight perturbations that match the texture, which is usually all you need for nice effects.