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Re: Why bake down normals from a highpoly when you can convert your diffuse into normals?
Generally covering a diffuse map into a normal map isn't going to give you good results. By and large the best that can be done is it treats the diffuse map as a height map... so anything that's bright is raised up and anything that's dark is sunken down. If you look at many diffuse textures in that way, you should be able… -
Why bake down normals from a highpoly when you can convert your diffuse into normals?
Ok I'm really confused, I recently found that you can convert a diffuse map into greyscale and then convert that into a normal map. This seems too easy, but it does seem to work most of the time. Is this what people do in the industry or should you always bake from a higher poly? -
Re: Why bake down normals from a highpoly when you can convert your diffuse into normals?
Baking is irreplaceable if you're doing normalmap-based bevels and fillets (in order to make a border edge look smooth when the existing geometry wouldn't allow it). You will never guess the tangent right if you try to imitate that with a handpainted map. On the other hand, adding surface detail (like wood grain, fabric… -
Re: Why bake down normals from a highpoly when you can convert your diffuse into normals?
Well, it looks like your confusion is not about the workflow but the meaning of normalmap itself. Read this: http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Normal_map
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