Going Crazy...
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on 02-09-2010 at 10:23 AM (178 Views)
... with Crazybump - in a positive wayHave been doing some texture/material work and Crazybump seems to produce very nice results often even if you start normal map generation from a plain color texture. NVIDIA normal map plugin for Photoshop doesn't work with 64-bit version and is very limited in the way you can control the normal map generation anyway. I also tried xNormal that works with 64-bit Photoshop, but it has almost no control for tweaking the normal map generation. I usually keep Photoshop open while generating/processing normal maps/diffuse/occlusion textures in Crazybump and copy the images to PS via clip-board for some touch ups, composition & resizing. Crazybump seems to be well worth the money, so if you need to produce normal maps you should definately check the evaluation version if you haven't yet.




Have been doing some texture/material work and Crazybump seems to produce very nice results often even if you start normal map generation from a plain color texture. NVIDIA normal map plugin for Photoshop doesn't work with 64-bit version and is very limited in the way you can control the normal map generation anyway. I also tried xNormal that works with 64-bit Photoshop, but it has almost no control for tweaking the normal map generation. I usually keep Photoshop open while generating/processing normal maps/diffuse/occlusion textures in Crazybump and copy the images to PS via clip-board for some touch ups, composition & resizing. Crazybump seems to be well worth the money, so if you need to produce normal maps you should definately check the evaluation version if you haven't yet.

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