Normal maps?

**Awellesley** · June 25, 2009, 03:06 PM

For the life of me, I cannot do normal maps on my own. Would somebody be interested in doing three or four for me?

**SigniferOne** · June 25, 2009, 03:19 PM

Just download NVidia's normal map plugin and it takes all of 5 minutes. I posted in your thread to try to help you get it resolved.

**Awellesley** · June 25, 2009, 03:50 PM

Originally Posted by SigniferOne

Just download NVidia's normal map plugin and it takes all of 5 minutes. I posted in your thread to try to help you get it resolved.

Sorry, where did you post? I have tried following the tutorials fro both GIMP and photoshop to no avail. Could somebody walk me through it?

**Nakharar** · June 25, 2009, 03:29 PM

takes less than 5 mins, 2 i used to think they were hard but they really arnt

**SigniferOne** · June 26, 2009, 11:33 AM

All you need is to see the entirety of your image be covered with the silver-bluish 'normal map' color. I've noticed that your resulting maps have a mixture of silver-bluish and original image colors, meaning there's something going wrong there.

The steps are very simple, at least for Photoshop: Go to Filter > NVidia > Normal Map, and press OK with the default settings. The whole image should become silver-bluish. Then, go to the Alpha channel, turn its brightness down to almost all black, and save. Normal map completed.