MEssing with normal files (blender 3d).

[Shambler234]

I'd have to say, blender's normal map generator is pretty powerful holy cow.





Words really cannot describe how much i love the generator, makes my life easy (sometimes).

[PrimalLove]

Nice! Designing a computer case? Looking sweet!

[Shambler234]

Nice! Designing a computer case? Looking sweet!

Ha ha, actually that was the explode box.

Does look like a computer case though.

[PrimalLove]

Oh yes I see it now. Would make a cool computer case too.

[Shambler234]

Oh yes I see it now. Would make a cool computer case too.

Quakeguy's personal computer case (not to be confused with duke nukem).

[talisa]

blender has an integrated normal-map generator?

didnt know that, ive been playing around with Xnormal and gimp myself for normal-map creation myself

[golden_boy]

I didn't know that either. I think he's talking about baking.

[Shambler234]

I didn't know that either. I think he's talking about baking.

yeah, Like i said it's pretty powerful.

Usually i put my models over each other with layers.

Normal Maps & Baking Textures in Blender 2.6x - YouTube

Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Bake - BlenderWiki

[talisa]

hmm thats quite neat, didnt know blender could do that

bookmarking that vid, ill definitely be using this method to create normals.
actually, not to long ago i was looking for just this method

[golden_boy]

Hard Surface shizzle | spawnhost

^ Here's some normal maps I made that way.

Cage baking | spawnhost

^ And here's something using Blender's relatively new cage baking process.

[xaGe]

They look nice GB.

[talisa]

neat, ill definitely be using this in the future to create normals

[Shambler234]

You know i tried baking my grenade for the navy seals mod (quake) and it had some odd brown spots, faces are normal.

[golden_boy]

You know i tried baking my grenade for the navy seals mod (quake) and it had some odd brown spots, faces are normal.

That's a problem with the bake. You can try playing around with the bake settings, or you can try cage baking which should solve those problems.

Weird colours in normal maps are usually not desired.