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What's the best way to get the normal/AO and Spec maps for a diffuse texture?
Hi, I'm new here, and I'm really confused. I personally like to paint my textures in Photoshop as my background is illustration. I often get the diffuse to where I like but have absolutely no clue how to create normals, AO and specular maps from it? From what I've seen in order to get normals you must make a high poly… -
Re: What's the best way to get the normal/AO and Spec maps for a diffuse texture?
Typically you model your highpoly first, then make your lowpoly/uvs, bake normal and ao maps, and then you create your diffuse and specular/metalness and gloss/roughness maps to match. There days, with modern shaders, there isn't so much hand painting to be done. Most of material work is accomplished by defining base… -
Re: What's the best way to get the normal/AO and Spec maps for a diffuse texture?
Yes and no. You can use something like nDo for creating normal map details in 2D: http://quixel.se/dev/ndo However, a normal map isn't simply detail. Its a complex set of math that uses the normals from the high poly to replace the low poly's mesh normals. You'll never be able to paint a normal map to the same accuracy,… -
Re: What's the best way to get the normal/AO and Spec maps for a diffuse texture?
It just seems so time consuming to make a high poly model in order to bake down on to your low poly, is there anything that allow you to paint a normal map? Almost as if you're painting in the depth onto a 2D normal map? I feel like I could achieve what I want much quicker that way. -
Re: What's the best way to get the normal/AO and Spec maps for a diffuse texture?
If painting a normal-map takes you less time than making a hi-poly you might want to look into speeding up your hi-poly modeling.
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