Normal Map Filters for GIMP and PS - Printable Version +- Writers' Guild Forums - for URU Agebuilders using the Open-Source Plasma plug-in (https://www.writers-guild.org/Forum) +-- Forum: Age Creation (https://www.writers-guild.org/Forum/forum-9.html) +--- Forum: Tools (https://www.writers-guild.org/Forum/forum-17.html) +---- Forum: 2D Graphics: tools, texture sources, and more (https://www.writers-guild.org/Forum/forum-31.html) +---- Thread: Normal Map Filters for GIMP and PS (/thread-30.html)

Normal Map Filters for GIMP and PS - Emor D'ni Lap - 11-13-2012 Page 95 of Cyan's Plasma documentation mentions a plug-in for Photoshop that can generate Normal maps from a given texture. That plug-in...and others...can be downloaded from Nvidia at: https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-texture-tools-adobe-photoshop But note that Page 96/97 of the Plasma manual lists a bunch of limitations on bump mapping in URU, among them: Bump mapping only works with runtime lighting. The object being bump mapped can't have scaling on it. Bump mapping currently won't work with composite materials. You can't apply bump mapping in a way that requires it to render with another layer (like being seen through a transparent alpha texture) ...altogether, nearly a prohibitive list unless you really target that one texture as crucial to your needs! RE: Normal Map Filter for PS - Calena - 11-14-2012 Here's a link to an equivalent plug-in for Gimp 2.0 and above: http://registry.gimp.org/node/69 I've incorporated normal maps on textures rendered in URU:CC and using Blender to build. Even though I still have a lot to learn about this technique, I was still able to improve the quality of my textures significantly. I haven't tried it yet with Cyan's plugin, but I'm looking forward to learning how to do this.