Normal Maps – Nalates’ Things & Stuff

Blender 2.7 Photorealistic Texture Painting Tutorial

2017/05/28 by Nalates Urriah

Adding more detail and making a texture look real takes some effort. The know-how is in a tutorial in this series: Creating a Realistic Head in Blender – part 08 – Clothing Textures. In the 8th of the series, CG Cookie Blender is working on the clothes. So, don’t let the title put you off. … Read more

Photoshop 2017: Bump, Normal, and Depth Maps

2017/04/032017/04/03 by Nalates Urriah

How Bump, Normal, and Depth Maps are created in Photoshop changed in 2017 CC. I hadn’t noticed until I needed to make a normal map. Then I stumbled across this video while checking to see if NVIDIA’s normal map tool would work with the newest 2017 CC. The video uses the 3D mode. When creating … Read more

How to Make Normal Maps with Blender

2016/08/06 by Nalates Urriah

This is a quick 5 minute tutorial by a kinda cute young man that is easy and to the point. He doesn’t cover all the details or provide all the possible adjustments but, he shows you how to get the job done.

Second Life Normal Maps & UV

2017/06/242014/05/05 by Nalates Urriah

There is an interesting discussion in the SL Forum about a problem some people have had making Normal Maps for Second Life™. Jake Koronikov opened the thread. Jake had a problem with the normal maps creating a visible seam in the model.

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For instance, the seam between the front and back sides of the avatar leg. Of you were making a manikin and using a normal map on it that seem would become visible as a step on the surface rather than the smooth surface it is supposed to be. You can see his images of the problem in the thread: Tangent spaced Normal Map seam visible in UV border area. (2017 – The images are gone.)