Paint.NET :: Generate Normal Map
Jun 11, 2010I have not found anything on the subject, so i ask you how can i create a normal map?
View 6 RepliesI have not found anything on the subject, so i ask you how can i create a normal map?
View 6 RepliesI've been using Blender a lot recently, and, not wanting to front the money to buy a Normal Map generation program or (oh dear) use GIMP of all things, I decided to try creating a Normal Map in Paint.NET.
What is a Normal Map, you ask? Normal Maps are images that are used in conjunction with a texture to give the texture false 'depth', allowing, say, light to shine onto the bricks in a texture while not getting into the cracks between, or making light come from a specific side.
The original texture:
The normal map:
The result:
Not the best, as you can clearly see.
How could I make improvements? Is this even practical?
How to paint normal map after adding Normal Map layer in paint stack ? Simple painting with Paint brush not give any results.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI like to know how do you go about making normal maps for textures
View 3 Replies View RelatedIf I have two images, one is a texture map and the other is a normal map, how do I essentially paste the normal map into the alpha channel?
The stuff I am importing into (OpenSimulator) uses a single image to put texture and normal map information onto an object but so far I can't see anywhere to create the alpha channel.
I am not using the alpha channel for transparency, which seems to be a source of confusion (elsewhere). The thing is I CAN use it for that (transparency I mean) simply by making part of my image transparent (This is splendid by the way, and is yet another reason why I adore Paint.Net), this implies to me there are alpha channels or that the transparency thing is something different.
Paint.net can open DDS files, but looses any mipmaps if they existing. Also here is no possibility to generate mipmaps and save texture with them.
I can't find any plugin with such a functionality. Are any plans for realize DDS support with mipmaps?
A customer has given me a colour to work with but I have to come up with a darker version and several shades that are lighter as well.
I've played around with the colour wheel in PDN but can't seem to generate the right colours....
I always seem to come up with something that doesn't match the colour the original...
How can I generate several shades of a colour?
In my version of X6 32-bit, there is a problem with the icons in Print Layout, they're not the normal icons, but one's used when tying as script to an icon.
I have re-set X6, using the Shift key method, but the problem is still there. I can use the menus and print, but those icons don't belong there.
We are using iPart - iAssembly workflow with Inv-2013 and Vault Basic 2013
My question is related to released state of iparts. Currently we are generating/ releasing
all the iparts when new member is added in order to manintain the parent child version relationship
Example : say i have a ipart 41020.ipt and i have members 41020- 001 ~ 008 . I check out the parent
from Vault and add 009 member to it.
Question :
Do I have to generate all and check those in to maintain the version relationship between the child and parent inside
Vault 2013 ?
Or
Only generating 009 will maintain version relationship inside Vault 2013
Config :: Intel (R) Xeon (R) CPU E31245 @ 3.30 GHz, 16.0 GB, 64bit win7
Inventor 2013 and Vault Basic 2013
Is it by any chance, possible to make tools as plugins usable in the "normal" working space, not in a new window? Also, adding something like this:
View 8 Replies View RelatedI've tried to use it, but how to generate the flashing light in a separate object. This is possible because while trying I did it, but now I cannot do it and it does the flashing light in the same layer of the background of the image.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhat I need is to be able to resize normal sized images taken from a standard camera down to 504x104 pixels. All I've managed so far is to distort the images is there a way I can avoid this?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI need to generate some decent grain/noise bakground for web page of size 128x128 or similar size.
I found - Grain Generator at [URL] ...... but it does not allow setup a spicle/grain size only 1pixel. I want dirrerent and random sizes from 1x1px up to 4x4px size.
Can it be simply generated in PSP X2/X4 or some good even online generator?
I started with a plane and then was connecting vertices to expand the plane. All the new vertices show more than one normal comming off it. I have checked and their is only 1 vertex at each of the points that are sprouting like 3 normal lines per vertex now.Unify normals removed them but still wondering.
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen we did Package design and want to do box like this can we do box effect like tisin corel or only possible in Photoshop or Illustrator. And 3D Letter effect also possible?
View 4 Replies View Relatedi don't have a normal cursor, which in my case is an arrow. instead i have what looks like three tiny hands in a row. this makes it very difficult to be accurate when cropping, or tilting. i uninstalled and reinstalled, to no avail. i'm using cs4 extended
View 2 Replies View RelatedEver since I installed CS4 Suite with Photoshop Extended, my Photoshop would crash as soon as I open a file. This would not happen if I am logged on as administrator on my Windows XP, but any other type of profile has the problem.
I tried: reinstallation, clearing the Photoshop preference file, testing whether some startup service is causing it, and created new user profiles, but neither helped.
Since, I did not have this problem with the CS3 suite, I assume that CS4 tries to do something that only administrators are allowed, but what?
I've got this very weird pic. Normally I can remove red eyes, but these are just very hard to deal with.
View 5 Replies View RelatedThere is a strength setting for bump maps under 3d Materials, but is there a way to increase the effect of a normal map in Photoshop CS4?
View 5 Replies View Relatedwant some normal looking type instead of having it sharp or smooth and turn AA off the type looks all weak and cracked, how I get it to look more "normal"?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm playing around with some video game models in 2011, but my efforts at applying textures are being foiled by this bizarre issue with the Normal Bump (see attachment).
Namely, it isn't showing in the renderer, despite being properly applied (as far as I can tell). I've downloaded Service Pack 2 and Hot Fix 4 for 2011, and fooled around with settings like "amount," but nothing seems to affect the render quality.
Operating system: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Version & Updates: 3ds Max 2011, Service Pack 2, Hot Fix 4
I am using ReFlow CC and PS CC. But not visible Generate. [URL]...
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View 3 Replies View RelatedFor my homepage I created and sliced an image for web but when I upload the generated html file and images there are a couple gaps that should not be there. figure this our? You'll notice a larger than normal gap on the images on my homepage:[URL}...
View 2 Replies View Relateduninstalled all my Nikon viewing etc software and it cleared up. Haven't changed anything since then, but it just started doing it again. Photo looks normal in Adobe camera raw, but when opened from there into CS6 it becomes highly color banded and cartoonish looking. On some pictures it's only happening in the brighter, highlight areas, in others the whole picture is affected. I'm using a high end Alienware computer and didn't have any issues for about the first year, my graphics card drivers are up to date, will check on monitor drivers next I guess.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI was getting brush lag for a few days after installing CS6. every 4 or so normal brush strokes, the brush would start to lag. And after a few lagging strokes it would go back to normal and then repeat itself.
The first thing I did was delete the work spaces that I never use (I doubt that fixed the problem).
Second thing I did was turn the cache levels to 1 and set image previews to "never save" (found this tip online, didn't fix the lag problem but I still kept those settings anyway).
The third thing (and what I believe fixed the problem) was going to "performance" in Photoshop, clicking on the advanced settings for your graphics processor and turning the drawing mode from advanced to basic.
I never had to do this on cs4 which is why it took a few days of tinkering around to fix the problem.
CS6 don't start normal. I should register me für CS6 extended trial.But I don't won't that.
View 4 Replies View Related...adding effects in VS x5 pro. I just downloaded the trial after upgrading to a new laptop running windows 7 and was told I could not use my videostudio 11 or moviefactory 6 plus. So I have video that I imported from my SDHC card in high def, it played fine until I started adding a crossfade and a couple of slow motions. Now, every video had no sound. I have tried deleting them and bring them back in, but still no sound. It will play music over the tracks, but I have lost all my original sound. I thought I would be able to add some music and lower the original soundtrack at certain points, letting it fade in and fade out, allowing for the original audio to play through and along with the music. I am pretty dissapointed right now and need some answers. Also what happened to the moving menus? I am confused with the templates as well... begininng, middle end or complete. Is that instead of moving menus? Can I not make a moving thumbnail menu with music and chapters?
View 10 Replies View RelatedI use CorelCAD 2013 and the software seems perfect to me. But now i realized a huge problem. I only use CAD in 2D Mode. When i make the drawings i have different Z Values in the Field "Normal Z". I don't know why CorelCad does this. I never put in a Z Value.
Is the Normal Z Value editable? When i export the Drawing to my cam system the drawing is disarranged but only all Values with different Z. Normally the value is zero but she lines are -1...?
I use Corel DRAW for writing articles in Telugu ( a South Indian language)I have been using X4 from 2008 on-wards.This is how I do it.
I use Edit PLus Version 2 for data entry...no formatting at this stage.Then , I copy and paste it it in Corel DRAW.Formatting for font, line breaks, paragraph breaks etc. is done in DRAW.Then I ‘Publish to PDF’ and I get very clean PDF file....absolutely no issues.The fonts are developed by local vendor and are Type 1 format. I never print them.
Some of my recipients have printed on laser printers.They too had no problems.I send them as attachments with my emails.
About two months ago, I purchased and started using X6.Here the PDF file appears very faint.
The same thing happened with X5 also.I am not able attach same PDF files as they are around 1 MB ...with the same text and all other parameters.
how to take a normal image ( / alt. link say this one for example) and take it to something like this.
I have no idea how it happened but I'm supposed to replicate the image effect for an update using the first (normal) image.
currently using Photoshop CS3, if it helps.