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1. Photographing Materials for Diffuse AND Normal maps?

   

   Topic by Ghostscape · May 2012 · Home› Technical Talk

   Does anyone have any experience with photographically scanning materials to get a light-neutral diffuse/albedo, normal map, or a more robust full BRDF scan? I've seen an old Ryan Clark tutorial here: http://zarria.net/nrmphoto/nrmphoto.html And I'm curious as to whether anyone has set up such a system for a more…

2. Re: Photographing Materials for Diffuse AND Normal maps?

   

   Reply by Eric Chadwick · May 2012 · Home› Technical Talk

   Nope, not personally. There was a tool posted on here awhile back that you would feed two photos of a subject, and it would spit out the mesh and a combined photo. Ah, here it is... PhotoSculpt http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=70506 There are other similar solutions out there, search for photogrammetry if…

3. Re: Photographing Materials for Diffuse AND Normal maps?

   

   Reply by Ghostscape · May 2012 · Home› Technical Talk

   Tiling multiple maps at once isn't that big of an issue in photoshop, there are methods using groups and layer masks - I don't think that's a useful argument to shoot down the method. I know there are a few contract services that provide this kind of concept, Surface Mimic being one of them, and I was looking for people…

4. Re: Photographing Materials for Diffuse AND Normal maps?

   

   Reply by aivanov · May 2012 · Home› Technical Talk

   I don't know if it was on here on another forum, but I recall someone saying long ago that Starbreeze had some sort of setup that took all the necessary photos of a given object and composited them into normal maps, or something to that effect. Pardon the vagueness.