bump map not showing after import?

winnppl

hi,

so im trying to Finnish my first complete model and texture for axe. I made the color map, normal map, and then just to test the model in the workshop importer i left the mask1 and mask2 both fully black. everything imports correctly (images are 256x256 and in the right file format from what im showing), but the bump map dos not show up?

Im using blender to rig the weapon to the skeleton and I just have the texture on the model when I export it as a .smd file, do I need to apply the normal map to the model too before i export it? iv looked for tutorials on how to do it but im not able to find anything. here are some images of what my results are.



What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for the help!

kite212

Does the normal map have an alpha? But I would focus more on the item. This needs some serious work. The details are all wrong, and you are wasting texture space. Take a serious look at the items accepted for him, as well as some of the top submissions:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=184859717&searchtext=
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=190889979&searchtext=
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=186645800&searchtext=

Sukotto

Agreed with kite.

But to answer your actual question, I think you need to invert the green channel of the normal map since Source reads normals differently

winnppl

thanks guys, yea I understand I just wanted to see what it looked like with the normal map. thanks for the help again

hayes87

you might also be using the self illumination channel, try tweaking it, Mask1 Alpha Channel. If set to full white, will lose some normal detail like that.