Normal Map - A newbies Search

[Zacker]

I say: Edit your posts plz...

[Lee3dee]

von*ferret: cool thx. Say thankyou to your "Awesome Friend" I'll try it when I get home

[kleinluka]

What are you using to render your nomal maps? Try Kaldera.

Also make sure you don't have anything that you want in your normal map modeled in a 90° angle. If you want your normal map to have depth - like lets say you wanna normal map a box onto a flat surface. You would have to scale down the top row of verts so the thing is a bit angled and then render it to normal map.

Here's a quick image I made to explain this...

[Lee3dee]

kleinluka: that pic u made, I added it to my normal map folder. Seems that normal mapping is going to be around for a bit

A bit of an update. The UV was inverted as von*ferret & Friend showed me. Instead of compressing turret and body into 1 map, I broke the model up into top and bottom. So now I have 2 normal maps. Not sure if they do that in the industry, but it worked out for me

Some progress:

[von*ferret]

I say: Edit your posts plz...

i say I can post 3 times if I want because I dont feel like editing. It does'nt matter since I'm giving feed back and helping out.

[Lee3dee]

another update.....texturing is fun fun

[von*ferret]

looking very sexy indeed. Want to normal map all my static meshes for me? lol jk jk jk

[Lee3dee]

decided to make a slight change to the tank, and make it look destroyed for a level idea I had

Current Progress

[OL]

cool

[von*ferret]

very sexy, might be a little too saturated in areas for me?