NEW CrazyBump Beta! (v2.6)

Ryan Clark

Hi all,

A new beta of CrazyBump is available for testing. If you'd like to give it a spin, please download the beta from www.crazybump.com/beta/download.html

This version corrects some crashes and introduces some new features.

- Numeric inputs in addition to sliders.

- A "noise-reduction" filter for normal maps.

- New sliders for adjusting greyscale heightmaps. These can be used to make shadow/crevice maps, or to create output similar to the older DisplacementCreator program.

- An option to use your source image as a diffuse-color texture in the preview window.

- The name of the open file is displayed on the title bar.

Thanks for all of your helpful testing and feedback thus far!

-Ryan

IronHawk

looking forward to checking this out Ryan.

Thanks!

RyRyB

Oh happy times!

I know what I'm doing at work tomorrow!

Thanks again Ryan for the most excellent program.

low odor

wooohoooo

JordanW

very nice update!

Ghostscape

Rock on!

This is such an awesome program, thank you so much for everything.

Jesse Moody

awesome. just awesome

HellMark

Nice. Any chance of getting this to work on Vista? Thanks.

MoP

Great stuff Ryan, love it!

metalliandy

I cant run the new 2.6 version of CrazyBump

I get these errors


and then upon clicking ok i get



Here is a DxDiag dump for my system info.
DxDiag report

Any help i can get would be great, i have been itching to get on this program since the last beta ran out.

Thanks for looking

Pedro Amorim

fail

great work ryan

Ryan Clark

Hi Metalliandy,

Thanks for the report. I'll try to figure out what's happening! Did you install the Microsoft runtime that's linked from the download page? If not, please give that a try.

Otherwise, please run the following program and send the output by email to Ryan at Crazybump.com.

http://www.tmgdevelopment.co.uk/versioncheck.zip

thanks very much,

-Ryan Clark

metalliandy

Thanks for the quick reply!
I have emailed the output to you.

doc rob

Ryan - this is too awesome!

beancube

cheers mate.

StefanMorrell

thanks Ryan..
how do you get the diffuse-color texture working?..I checked it under options but it wont display in the preview window,everything else displays fine

Cheers

Daz

Fantastic update to an awesome tool Ryan, many thanks. Do you think you'll ever support models? Even different primitives might be a help, like a sphere instead of a cube perhaps.

Ruz

Our environment artists love this at work. great stuff

shape

Thanks Ryan, much appreciated.

Model support or just different prims would be awesome. Also, is anyone else finding that the diffuse color option is lit quite dark? Looks like it's using the "simple light" setup. It would be great to be able to use the colored lights as well.

cheers Ryan, very cool!

tomdon

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I cant run the new 2.6 version of CrazyBump

I get these errors



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I am getting the same error, I am running Vista, it apears to be a vista issue. I used to use the program fine in xp.

cyborgguineapig

Very nice, especially the height map function. Just ran a test using a wood detail normal texture and the crevice detail all came out just awesome.

Ryan Clark

Hi y'all,

I've just posted beta test 2.7. I hope it solves the crashes and vista-compatibility problems.

2.7 also contains speed improvements and a new UI for the preview window. It adds the option to toggle between cylindrical and cuboid preview objects.

Thanks for the excellent testing, guys. Please let me know if you see any compatibility trouble with this version!

-Ryan

fmnoor

yes! Works good vith Vista Ultimate (32-bit here). I did need to right click and run as Administrator though.

Dennispls

Good work ryan!

Xaltar

Better and better every beta I test. Awesome work.

Castor

This is awesome program !!! Ryan.
BTW, I was wondering if the preview shows the parellex bump mapping if I generate the shadow/displacement map? I have crappy VGA card with PS 1.1 so I am not sure if it does work or not. Anyone?

darktoad

Great program. Any plans to support dds files?

Ryan Clark

Nope. The preview window doesn't show parallax. Just fixed-function normal mapping. Your ps1.1 card should be showing you everything.

MoP

Really cool stuff Ryan, I love this software.

One thing - all that bouncy fancy moving text, squishy buttons and zooming-in model faff almost feels like it's slowing down the program. I don't know how much of a hit it actually is to do all that stuff, but personally I think I'd prefer it if the buttons didn't flash in and out with the stretchy text all the time. Also the way the model swaps out seems kind of unnecessary - I don't really care how the model transitions, in fact, the faster the better - it seems to me it'd be most efficient to have the model preview change immediately from a cube to a cylinder when the user clicks, rather than floating it off screen then back on again. It's a neat trick the first time, but it gets tiresome quite rapidly if you switch the preview a lot. Similarly with all the zooming images.
Maybe it's just me, I dunno if anyone else feels the same, but I think this app would be better if it was just more straightforward and fitted into the whole Windows environment a little more neatly. Custom UIs can be cool, but sometimes I feel they try a little too hard with no good reason

Not meaning to bash your work, I really like the software and I'm sure you added all that stuff for a reason, but it just seems like the app would be better off without it.

Cheers

-MoP

Ryan Clark

MoP, I hear ya on the model swapping and image zoom. Anything that slows down your work needs to be fixed, so look for those to be improved soon.

Xaltar

Nice, Mop pretty much hit the nail on the head, the features are excellent now its time to optimize everything to get it as fast and efficient as possible. Love the app and I'll be using it a lot in upcoming projects. Hurry up and get a final release out so you can actually make some money off this sucker You certainly deserve it.