[NicoR44]

Hi all,

I'm not familiar with normal maps, could any of you explain to me how to create one?
And can it be created in paint shop pro?

Thanks, Nico.

[raja]

Hi Nico,

You can download filter for photoshop from NVIDIA site. Wikipedia has good article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_map

Don't know about paint shop pro. Here is how the interface looks like for the photoshop filter:



regards,

[mrcharles]

I used the same nvidia plugin to create normal maps. My experimentation was very limited (I'll get back to it soon... hopefully).

I started with a arroway bump map and found that I had to perform a photoshop adjustment (I inverted the tones of the original image) to the bump before the plugin would create a correct normal map.

If I ran the bump image without the inverted tones it created an effect opposite of what I desired (areas that should deflect outward appeared to move inward).

I'll be interested to see what you find.

Also... a recent reading of the maxwell manual said something about bump values having no effect on normal maps. I also found that to be true in my brief experimentation.

[spekoun]

Thank you for asking this question, Nico. I have same "problem"

I downloaded that plug-in some time before, but i did not have time to explore it and i do not understand its settings very much. Can somebody explain settings for converting "classical" grayscale bitmaps to normal map???

[MarkM]

heres a nice link on normal maps aswell....

http://66.70.170.53/Ryan/nrmphoto/nrmphoto.html

[NicoR44]

hey, thanks guys!! digging in to it right mow