Normal Map, you CRAZY!!!

michaeljanzen

Hi! A quick normal mapping question! I'm still feel new to 3D modeling, so I apologize for any noobishness.

Long story short; modeled a space ship, playing around with diffuse, normal and space maps and how to make them. Normal map created in Photoshop using nDo. Testing out the Normals in 3DS and here's my issue! Standard material looks a little sucky compared to the Xoliul shader. I'd like to do some fancy renders with this model, and I'd love it to have the same quality Xoliul is showing!

Is there anything I'm doing wrong, missing, or could improve upon? Any help would be greatly appreciated from the bottom of my arteries and organs!!



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EarthQuake

looks like your normal is applied as a bump map, and not normal in the standard mat?

gsokol

Yup. So the image on the left is using a standard material with the map in the bump slot right? You have to select normalsbump then put the map in that.

KyleJensen

In 3ds max, the default normal bump value is set at 30. Try cranking it up to 100 if you haven't done so already.

Also, turn on hardware lighting and hardware shading + maps.

The hardware lighting can be found in the settings on the upper left part of the viewport. The hardware shading + maps can be found in your material browser. With both of these turned on your normals should show up better.

Not sure if these will fix your normal map issues, but it's worth a shot.

michaeljanzen

Amazing!! Wow!!

Thank you all, EarthQuake, gsokol, and Shad0wForce!! Everything you said helped! Render is displaying a muuuuuch better normal map!!!

PredatorGSR

Also could be that your normal map is inverted. Try flipping the green channel.

D4V1DC

PredatorGSR wrote: »

Also could be that your normal map is inverted. Try flipping the green channel.

Looks like this. /\

raul

this was already pointed out, but when you choose what goes on the bump node. You have to make sure you pick normal bump, not bump. Then set it to 100.