The BRAWL² Tournament Challenge has been announced!
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It starts May 12, and ends Sept 12. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
Free normal mapping program
polycounter lvl 4
Hey Ive been looking for a free normal mapping program for Gimp. I don't have PS so I can't use the nvidia tools. Does anyone know if there any free programs similar to Crazybump which would allow me to make some basic maps?
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first link on google "gimp normal map"
http://www.smart-page.net/smartnormal/
http://www.tartiflop.com/disp2norm/ Be sure to set Displacement Direction to Z
http://normalmapgenerator.yolasite.com/
Not a generator, but a combiner:
http://www.planetinaction.com/software/ncombiner.htm
There also appears to be a normal map extension for Paint.net, there may be others.
In fact, I think Blender+XNormal+Gimp is the de facto pipeline for hobbyists. Some also use Sculptris.
-Edit- My bad, it's late. He was clearly looking for something to convert textures into normals, not bake a high poly.
It's been a pretty long time, but I could have sworn Gimp had a normalize tool built into it innately... Might have been a plugin, I suppose.