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Tips on creating normal maps for buildings.

Felipe Schieber

Felipe Schieber

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For the first time I'm trying to create normal maps for my buildings. I'm playing with the 3D filter in Photoshop, using this tutorial to make the normal in FSX style, but my normal maps never get similar to the expected. In FSX they show completely unrealistic.

So, anyone got a good technique or tip on creating normal maps?

These are my first attempts:

test1.png

test3.png
 
Hello...

It appears to be correct,... what intensity was use to create the normal map... before the -RedInAlpha command in Imagetool? What was used to compile the textures to dds? Which Photoshop was used also?
 
The normals look realistic to me. Maybe mak them a bit less intense and turn the specular down a notch or two and you should be fine.
 
I'm using the Photoshop CC 2015. I tried to convert the textures do DDS using the NVidia Plugin, but got some weird results, so I used the Material Editor in MCX to import the BMP files and save as DDS. It worked as shown in the images above.

Following the tips, I'll try to reduce the insentity of the normals and see how it goes.

Now I'm looking for a way of do this without importing the model into MCX, so I can test different textures more easily, by just working in Photoshop, converting to DDS and testing in the Flight Sim.

Can i use the program DXTBmp to convert from BMP to DDS? I remember i did this for my grass texture some time ago.

Edit: I was able to make the Nvidia Plugin work properly. I'll try to adjust the insensity of the normals.
 
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Sounds like you corrected it then.... at least a foot in the right direction... lol
 
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