xNormal - How do I do this?...

RossHildick3D

Morning all!

I am watching a tutorial on gumroad and the guy makes a stunning little lightmap by combining an AO pass he baked in 3ds max (which I can replicate just fine) with an "occlusion" and "Diffuse" pass from crazybump... These are the two I'm having trouble replicated in xNormal... Here is what he's generating.

CrazyBump's "Diffuse" output:


CrazyBump's "Occlusion" output:


What are the equivalent passes in xNormal? I can't seem to replicate his results.

Thanks

huffer

First one is a curvature, set it in xnormal settings to single channel (monochrome) and it'll get close.

RossHildick3D

Aah awesome, thanks!

Any thoughts to the second? It looks kind of like a blown out AO pass but I cant see to get it bloom like this.

EarthQuake

The second one is AO, XN won't generate an AO map that looks like Crazybump's, because the AO map that CB generates is a poor quality approximation of AO. You'll get a proper AO map out of XN.

RossHildick3D

Excellent, thanks guys - sorry for perhaps obvious questions - New to this shizzle.