Crumpled/bumped metal normal map

pho · Mar 2016

Hey guys! I hope I choose the right place to ask:
Does anybody know where I can find some bumped metal scans/normal maps/height maps?
Something like this:

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/mv/ibf9ccsnkx42.jpg

Well, maybe I just don't know the right word to google it?

Thanks!

Rekov · Mar 2016

That looks like something you could fairly easily generate from an image texture using a program like CrazyBump, which has a free trial version. This is a decent tutorial to that purpose:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjnV6zaiVEA

If you need less control over the end result, you could potentially make do with nVidia's photoshop plugin: https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-texture-tools-adobe-photoshop

I believe gimp has something similar.

Alternatively, your last option would be to sculpt the surface you want in a 3D modeling program. Some are better than others, but Blender works just fine, and bake the detail onto a normal map.

pho · Mar 2016

Thanks for the reply, but my question was more about how can I find some images like this. I mean metal dents. It could be just a photo, of course. Or maybe some alphas for zbrush. Maybe I just don't know how to search it.

Quack! · Mar 2016

Dented sheet metal
http://bfy.tw/4lYa

Crumpled/bumped metal normal map

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