I'm an old fashioned person. I like my diffuse, but I still want to try all this out. I've tried making a spec map, a bump and a normal map. None worked. I use all default max 7 options. except for the viewport and the textporter script. My spec map was looking like other peoples spec maps. I wanted to achive a look like…
perhaos you should enable the dx material in the material rollout, otherwise you won't see your normal map in realtime. Use the normal bump material for your normal map