hey all, ive found a lots of standart textures and sprites, but with stuff like height maps i had no luck so far. do you guys here know any good sites(or any other way), where i can get these things? particularly im looking for wall, wood and pavement textures, that can help me with creation of technological demo located in medieval town. id be really grateful, thanx, ales

Quote: Original post by MassacrerAL
hey all,
ive found a lots of standart textures and sprites, but with stuff like height maps i had no luck so far. do you guys here know any good sites(or any other way), where i can get these things? particularly im looking for wall, wood and pavement textures, that can help me with creation of technological demo located in medieval town.

id be really grateful,
thanx, ales

send the textures you have so far that need normal maps and i'll make them for you. e-mail:
metalgearsolido8 at hotmail dot com

yip. best way to get normal/bump maps is to make them yourself. If you have something like brick, really easy to do. Open up your photo editor, import your picture/texture that you have already, and convert it to gray scale. Increase the contrast a little, and if it comes out in reverse in your engine (like the brick are imprinted and the mortar juts out), open that photo editor back up, import your gray scale normal map, and invert the colors.

thnx you both. i thought its far from easy, but im happy to see its not entirely true. in fact i need only height maps becouse normal maps can be easily computed from them.

[Edited by - MassacrerAL on July 21, 2007 5:13:13 AM]

Quote: Original post by Zarathorne
yip. best way to get normal/bump maps is to make them yourself. If you have something like brick, really easy to do. Open up your photo editor, import your picture/texture that you have already, and convert it to gray scale. Increase the contrast a little, and if it comes out in reverse in your engine (like the brick are imprinted and the mortar juts out), open that photo editor back up, import your gray scale normal map, and invert the colors.

if thats what you're doing thenit may work slightly but you're not getting a correct normal map. a normal map uses each color channel (r, g, and b) as height information at different angles, that and any normal map needs to be normalized.

Quote: Original post by MassacrerAL
thnx you both. i thought its far from easy, but im happy to see its not entirely true. in fact i need only height maps becouse normal maps can be easily computed from them.

the point is, i can make those heightmaps by hand editing the diffuse textures you have, then i can generate them using a few photoshop tricks and nvidia's plugin. nvidia's plugin works quite well, however it requires a bit of tweaking to geta good normal map, but like i said, if you want me to make you some i can.

Quote: Original post by MassacrerAL
thnx you both. i thought its far from easy, but im happy to see its not entirely true. in fact i need only height maps becouse normal maps can be easily computed from them.

the point is, i can make those heightmaps by hand editing the diffuse textures you have, then i can generate them using a few photoshop tricks and nvidia's plugin. nvidia's plugin works quite well, however it requires a bit of tweaking to geta good normal map, but like i said, if you want me to make you some i can.

you`ve got an email. thanks again for your interest

Quote: Original post by MassacrerAL
you`ve got an email. thanks again for your interest

not sure if you mean it in the sense of "You now have an e-mail!" or if you're asking for my e-mail, either way:
metalgearsolido8 at hotmail dot com

The answer is simpler than that. CrazyBump seems to be a MUCH better solution than the NVidia plugin. It won't be free forever, as its only in beta at the moment, but you can already make some fantastic looking bump/normal maps with very little effort. The NVidia becomes obselete, imo, with this tool. I can't remember where I first saw a link to it, but he should post for image of the day here to spread the knowledge about it.