JamesTaylor Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 Anyone out there using normal maps yet? just having a look into it at the minute but its slow going!! any pointers towards good tutorials etc would be helpfull. Equally any info on how well vray handles normal maps inconjunction with GI would be useful. edit: can the hi res model incorporate displacement too? my aim to create Normal maps for the brick walls of a house. Geometry originally modeled in CAD then subdivided and displaced in Max. I now want to create a normal map to store this info rarther than recalculate it each time i render Thanks James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesTaylor Posted February 16, 2006 Author Share Posted February 16, 2006 It seems that vray doesn't support normal maps yet? Can anyone confirm this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocarpen Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 Hello, I've been wondering the same thing: VRay + Normal Mapping for archvis work. Anyone worked with this before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dollus Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Works fine - give it a shot. Very simple to implement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesTaylor Posted March 3, 2006 Author Share Posted March 3, 2006 John, could you eleborate a little please or perhaps point us in the direction of a suitable tutorial? Thanks James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinn.net Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 hello Boys, take a look at this great tool http://fabio.policarpo.nom.br/relief/index.htm. I think can help with normal map, and work vray..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesTaylor Posted March 4, 2006 Author Share Posted March 4, 2006 Thanks Andrea! are you using this plugin? could you post any examples of work using the plugin? i'll download it and have a play anyway, just too busy at the mo! James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinn.net Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 I start to use right now... I see inside the folder scene some good example.... I think the only problem is generate the normal map from 2d grayscale image, is possible with photoshop nvidia plugin.... For now that's it.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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