Heres some normal mapping tools
Posted: 2004-08-28, 05:04
Lightwave Plugins for normal maps
http://amber.rc.arizona.edu/lw/plugins/NormalMaps.zip
Photoshop filter
http://www.quest3d.com/download/NVIDIA_ ... filter.zip
Orb normal map generator and viewer
http://www.soclab.bth.se/practices/orb.html
Ati tool that converts your bitmaps to normals
http://www.ati.com/developer/sdk/radeon ... ugIns.html
This one uses geometry to make normal maps
http://www.ati.com/developer/tools.html
A tool to allow you to render normal maps in max5
http://www.maxplugins.de/max5.php?search=gnormal
AMP2 engine tools, has an excellent normal mapper plugin for max 4 and 5, comes with tutorials as well, my personal choice
http://www.4drulers.com/ampdownload.html
The Far Cry sdk comes with crytechs polybump plugin for max
ftp://ftp.ubi.com/emea/farcry/SDK/CryEN ... 0setup.exe
the downloads about 27 meg though.
Thats all I could find, I hear that the current version of softimage is capable of generating normal maps as well, so anybody with that half-life2 edition should check it out
http://amber.rc.arizona.edu/lw/plugins/NormalMaps.zip
Photoshop filter
http://www.quest3d.com/download/NVIDIA_ ... filter.zip
Orb normal map generator and viewer
http://www.soclab.bth.se/practices/orb.html
Ati tool that converts your bitmaps to normals
http://www.ati.com/developer/sdk/radeon ... ugIns.html
This one uses geometry to make normal maps
http://www.ati.com/developer/tools.html
A tool to allow you to render normal maps in max5
http://www.maxplugins.de/max5.php?search=gnormal
AMP2 engine tools, has an excellent normal mapper plugin for max 4 and 5, comes with tutorials as well, my personal choice
http://www.4drulers.com/ampdownload.html
The Far Cry sdk comes with crytechs polybump plugin for max
ftp://ftp.ubi.com/emea/farcry/SDK/CryEN ... 0setup.exe
the downloads about 27 meg though.
Thats all I could find, I hear that the current version of softimage is capable of generating normal maps as well, so anybody with that half-life2 edition should check it out