[Tea_Bag]

ShaerMap V2 is now out! Great new look!

http://shadermap.com/home/

[sandykoufax]

I have v1 of this. I don't know it worth to upgrade to V2.
I have a PixPlant too.

[Polyxo]

Seems like an extremely cool update for an insane price.
It now also has 16Bit-Support.

[oz42]

Thanks for the heads-up, just bagged myself a copy!

Looks like a great compliment to PixPlant, etc. and for only $39.95 how can you go wrong!

[numerobis]

yes, it looks interesting, but there is no way to display the tiled texture or did i miss it?!?

[Polyxo]

yes, it looks interesting, but there is no way to display the tiled texture or did i miss it?!?

You can preview the tiling on arbitrary 3D-objects.

[oz42]

I got a bit confused about tiled textures too but it is explained in this video http://shadermap.com/video/?v=1 (from about 3:40 onwards)

[JTB]

I have v1.0 too and I will upgrade... It took a long time for v2.0 so there must be something new... The batch processing was really great... If for example you have a folder of JPGs, you can have bump,disp,norm files really fast... and that makes better materials.

[Mihai]

Just bought it too, as Oz says, at that price it's more than worth it, just the ability to paint normal maps with your own imported models.

[rusteberg]

i assume it imports the mapping data for each imported model (unwrapped uvs)? or is that info arbitrary and it is geared towards tileable diffuse? haven't grabbed the demo to try, wondering if anyone has tested this?

[Polyxo]

i assume it imports the mapping data for each imported model (unwrapped uvs)? or is that info arbitrary and it is geared towards tileable diffuse? haven't grabbed the demo to try, wondering if anyone has tested this?

I guess that it applies its material-variations on the custom UV's of User-Models too (though I got some weird shading defects as I just tried).
But I'd say its focus is creation of generic tileable materials as also Crazybump or Pixplant do.

[sandykoufax]

3D model importer

http://shadermap.com/forums/showthread. ... d=33#pid33

I have to consider to upgrade.

[Mihai]

Actually I ment the ability to load a 3D model, and use that to paint normals in a texture. For example importing a screw model and using that model as a "3D" brush. But it looks like it can already import arbitrary models as well to visualize the normal map.

[numerobis]

@oz42 and Polyxo
thanks! I didn't realize the tiny arrow on the right side to open the editor

but it would still be nice to see the tiling in the map view.
ok you could import a plane as preview object...

[sandykoufax]

another free normal map generator : nMaker 2

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread. ... ost7354978