NVIDIA Photoshop Normal Map Filter + Free Textures

NVIDIA Photoshop Normal Map Filter + Free Textures#293863

By jfrancis - Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:52 am

- Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:52 am #293863

The NVIDIA Normal Map filter creates normal maps from grayscale height maps.

(when you have a grayscale height map, is there a need to make a normal map? I'm not sure I know, but it looks interesting. And it's free)

link here

Last edited by jfrancis on Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:56 am, edited 1 time in total.

#293864

By jfrancis - Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:55 am

- Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:55 am #293864

A whole bunch of grungy and quite useful-looking 1024 rez tiled textures, free from NVIDIA>

They are in 8-bit DDS format, but NVIDIA also provides a free DDS i/o plugin for Photoshop.

I think I can get a fair amount of use from some of these. If you haven't seen them before, they seem worth the effort.

link here for plugin

link here for the textures, themselves...

#293865

By RonB - Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:00 am

- Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:00 am #293865

What the hell are Transmogrifying textures? I am not sure I want them in the same folder as my other texture maps. They might transmorgrify the whole lot with their filthy transmorgrifying ways...

#293866

By jfrancis - Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:06 am

- Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:06 am #293866

good point. i guess we dodged a bullet.

#293867

By Tim Ellis - Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:30 am

- Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:30 am #293867

It's a good free plugin, but it's not as good as Crazy Bump.

It won't work on PS layers either, as you end up with transparent maps.

Tim.

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#293878

By RonB - Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:23 pm

- Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:23 pm #293878

The Transmorgriying textures are no great shakes either...

#293881

By jfrancis - Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:07 pm

- Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:07 pm #293881

RonB wrote:The Transmorgriying textures are no great shakes either...

If I find a use for one isolated corrosion stain in the corner of one image the download was worth the cost.

#293883

By jfrancis - Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:11 pm

- Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:11 pm #293883

I think in future instead of trying to contribute to this site I'll just keep quiet and take things.

#293898

By RonB - Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:05 pm

- Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:05 pm #293898

Hey wait a minute jfrancis...I did not mean to cast aspersions on your sharing. I should have stated a qualifier in my comment that said I do appreciate you taking the time to post and share these things. You are right, one little useful bit and it's all worth while, after all it is free.

So, please accept my apology and please do keep sharing...

I was just having some fun with the Transmorgrifying textures thing..I had never seen that before and it struck me as being funny...but I tend to shoot off at the mouth sometimes when it would be better for me to keep to myself.

Peace?

Ron