Having fun with bump maps.

[Shambler234]

Well, after messing around with blender and photoshop i came up with these.


This is a vanilla quake texture that i decided to crate a bump map after, looks ugly.


After messing around with blender and Photoshop, I've created a displacement map and added small amounts of noise.




I might actually consider doing this as some type of project, but that could take months.

UPDATE: just realized that these are not bump maps, just displacement maps *oops*.

[Shambler234]

Even more fun with bump maps.



I added tons of noise to this.

Still a better result than first try.

[Shambler234]

Decided to make bump maps with the wiz floor, looks good.

[MadGypsy]

you are getting better pretty fast. Keep up the good work.

[golden_boy]

Good normal maps bump mostly the underlying geometry of a texture, not all the noise.

Try to have softer edges so you get more visible highlights on them.

[Phenom]

Fun stuff! Keep going!

Cool things come from just fvcking around!

[Shambler234]

These are some of the normal I've generated with blender and edited with photoshop.

Some of them might look soft, that's because I've had to make a displacement map out of the normal file so they might look a little .

[Shambler234]

After following part of this tutorial it seems that i was able to get bump maps in blender to view via cycles.




[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeWTTINkUG0[/ame]

[Shambler234]

So i finally made the bump map it appears.

[Shambler234]

Tutorial: GLSL Bump painting


Also found a video on how to view bump maps with 3D view correctly.


TL|DW

Don't sample as normal or it will glitch out.

Set bump map as normal geometry -0.3 and set color off in influence.

Generate as UV.

Set bump mapping quality (method) as best and texture space as texture.

[Shambler234]

I also found out that you have to invert the images right after you Desaturate them, you can adjust the intensity of the Desaturation via levels (ctrl-l) or use brightness contrast in adjustments menu.


I also figured out the hard way that it depends on what shading is done.

http://animation.about.com/od/3danim...-Photoshop.htm


This should probably help.


Or you could simply Desaturate the photo and apply a highpass filter.

http://forums.cgsociety.org/archive/.../t-795430.html