I used Corel Painter plus Blender addon that reads riff files but now can't activate my 2017 license any more. Too old. And honestly it's ancient and inconvenient as hell. Nothing really new there for decades. Any other soft focused on real world brush simulation that could export depth ? Art rage? Rebelle? Anything ?
Thanks Alex_J. I mean not the resolution but rather pixel depth . Is this png 8 or 16 bit per grey channel ? My favorite painting soft is Rebelle actually but it doesn't have any height map export at all . I asked them to do it many years ago as well as many other people too but they never did it . Blender 2.7 addon allows…
@gnoop from the layer panel an option to export layers. It gives a bump, reflection, and whatever sh is. I'm sure you can setup options for the quality somewhere but just zooming into the image, it looks like same as what I in art rage in terms of resolution.
art rage is my favorite though i have not tested many of the alternatives. i have not exported depth before myself but looks like its possible: How To Add Texture Effects – Artrage i think they have a month long free trial and its easy software to get around in so big recommendation from me
Alex_J Thanks . Could you do a quick test please it if you have it . I am not perfectly sure but I think I tried it decade ago and it exported 8bit height map that turned out having ugly steps when I tried to produce normal map from it . Not sure if it was art rage exactly or maybe some other soft. Or perhaps it was a…
not sure exactly, but maybe you know how to read this: the ICC profile info shown from affinity photo after opening it. Not sure if the RGB/8 format dropdown indicates that this is RGB8 or thats just the default selection. Is there some other way to check? Art Rage doesnt seem to have any export options to change it, so…
YE Yeah, it's probably me on that old forum . Looks like nothing have changed since . 8 bit is not a good pixel depth for the height . Makes it hard to make anything good from it . I recall I got stepped lines across palette knife strokes when turned it into normal map. Tried to make sort of wall plaster layers with it.…