normal map images

General Discussion
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Hello

I was trying to do a normal map 2d image with blender, baking the original image normals, but i cant get the blender’s normal map image get like a real 2d normal map image…

Seeing the panda3d examples, found Normal Mapping example, the light running arround a wall and a piramid and a cylinder, then seeing the normal map images (brick-n.jpg, etc), are different from that i got in blender yet with the same texture brick-c.jpg

what was the process to do those images in the examples ¿ or with what program did were made them.

thanks…

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these are some of the tools available to create normal maps:

gimp normalmap plugin:
nifelheim.dyndns.org/~cocidius/normalmap/

photoshop normalmap plugin:
developer.nvidia.com/object/phot … ugins.html

i recommend reading this tutorial, it helps you understand what you should (not) do to create good normalmaps:
katsbits.com/htm/tutorials/c … images.htm

this tutorial has some informations and more links to normalmaps:
bencloward.com/tutorials_normal_maps1.shtml

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Thank you for those links… !!