[TUTORIAL] Making a texture with a normal map

[AWESOME-O]

any way to do this without photoshop? I usually use paint.net

 

[YM]

Well once upon a time you could use crazy bump to do all normal/specular/etc maps for textures but that's had its format changed and now you need to actually pay for it to use it

 

[AWESOME-O]

Well once upon a time you could use crazy bump to do all normal/specular/etc maps for textures but that's had its format changed and now you need to actually pay for it to use it

nah pirate bay ftw!

 

[YM]

Shh.

Fancy sharing, privatly?

 

[Lord Ned]

Sonofabitch, my Crazybump "trial" (while it was in beta) just ran out.


Here's my failtempt at a texture like what you had.

(No filter used, my orginal texture was too complicated for Dry Brush to work well)

 

[Morphis]

After compiling the textures, here's how it looks in-game:


EDIT:

So, I revised the texture a little, following the advice given in comments on this thread; mostly rounding off the normal map edges, and adding some brush strokes:


And if anyone's interested, the PSD is available (7zipped, 18MB).

If you've got any questions about the details of a particular step, please ask.

How did you round off the Normal map?
How did you keep the edges detailed?

 

[YM]

How did you round off the Normal map?
How did you keep the edges detailed?

My guess is that the normal map has been blurred using a standard blurr filter then layered on top of the original normal map at a low opacity, that way you keep most of the sharpness of the edjes but the whole thing is smoother and appears more rounded

Also, normal font size and colour please

 

[Queops]

Nice work, good tutorial.