Need a bit of help.

[elmarko123]

So,

I'm looking at editing existing normal to create new ones, currently for shields.

Currently I can create defuse/seculars for new textures, I can create the units & make new texture entries (to avoid saving over the existing ones & link them up).

But now I want to create some normal to go with these shield, the problem is - I have no idea how to create one from scratch, or the process of editing an existing one to learn - all of the guides on her are about converting existing ones into the Rome 2 format (Which requires the steps before hand I don't know).

If anybody would be as kind to write a short beginner's guide on how to edit a shield normal using Photoshop (nvida plugin) & file pack manager I'd be most grateful.

Thanks,

M

[Man of West Gondor]

Here you go: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...ge-quot-Format

[elmarko123]

This youtube video explains much of it, but skims over the normal part & has no voice over/text.

[elmarko123]

Hmm maybe I didn't explain it well.

That guide assumes the reader already knows half the steps - aswell as the steps in FPM/hed editing required - it also assumes they know how to create the first normal map & doesn't mention anything about editing an existing one.

I mean for example, in my photoshop under tools I have an nvidia normalmapfilter, I assume I can use this to create the first purple/blue normal map - but it's got a huge list of options & I'm unsure to create it from say, the diffuse texture?, or what.

Once I get to the stage of actually having the map I'm also running into trouble with shields specifically (I that for everything else I don't have to use "imposter models" - which again, when doing basic texture editing I don't have to consider - ergo I'm unfamiliar with the FPM side of things.

For the other aspects I've found some good step by step guides/tutorials - but for normal - not much so.

Hope that makes the question clearer & thanks for your reply.