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Create BumpMap, Noise, Occlusion ect from Pic.

by xGamer · in Game Design and Creative Issues · 05/05/2008 (6:24 am) · 9 replies

Hello,

I was looking for a program that would allow me to easily create images for use with shaders simular to what TGEA uses. I found a program that will take an actual texture for terrain, or even the bark image for a tree and will create all of the needed images such as normalmap, diffuse, occlusion, spec and so on.

http://www.crazybump.com/

I've been all over this site and haven't seen this posted. It's actually used by a lot of known people.

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    Torque Owner Andrew Nare
    #1
    05/05/2008 (6:44 am)
    Ah yes crazy bump. That is a VERY useful program for generating the shaders for any texture or image you drop in.

    Torque 3D Owner Eric Forhan
    #2
    05/05/2008 (2:50 pm)
    CrazyBump is great, but it's costly. $99 for personal or "indie" use. $299 for commercial use.
    Indie license can be obtained by emailing him before purchasing.

    However, I do highly recommend this.

    Torque 3D Owner Jeramy79
    #3
    05/05/2008 (7:46 pm)
    I'm glad I got this program while it was in Beta

    Torque Owner James Laker (BurNinG)
    #4
    05/12/2008 (7:16 am)
    Hehe... I have to agree with you there Jeramy.

    Associate Logan Foster
    perPixel Studios
    #5
    05/12/2008 (10:13 am)
    As useful as Crazybump can be it doesn't beat generating this kind of data from a 3D source. In fact its best possibly usage is to tweak data output from your 3D app to help make it zing.

    I will agree though its definately worth adding to your collection of art applications.

    Torque Owner James Laker (BurNinG)
    #6
    05/13/2008 (12:33 am)
    I only have a license for Milkshape. Is what you're mentioning even possible with Milkshape or am I stuck with tools like Crazybump?

    Torque 3D Owner Dave Young
    Dave Young Games
    #7
    05/13/2008 (4:41 am)
    Yes, it's possible, check out ATI's site for a very nice free tool called meshmapper or something like that. You can load a high rez mesh and generate normal, displacement, ambient occlusion maps with it for use on a low rez mesh.

    Edit: Linky: MeshMapper

    They have some other goodies on the site as well.

    Torque Owner Stephan Goebels
    One Man Show
    #8
    05/13/2008 (5:58 am)
    xNormal is an application to generate normal / ambient occlusion / parallax displacement and relief maps. It can also project the texture of the highpoly model into the lowpoly mesh.

    Torque Owner James Laker (BurNinG)
    #9
    05/14/2008 (12:01 am)
    Awesome... Thanx guys!