Reply To: How can you make normal maps / bump maps?

Forum Archive How can you make normal maps / bump maps? Reply To: How can you make normal maps / bump maps?

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Omar Domenech
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    You can create texture images for bump, but you can also use it procedural. If you want to get them out of the software as images, you’re going to have to bake them. For a procedural way, in this Sessions lesson, Kent goes through Bump for the leafs:

    https://cgcookie.com/lessons/dew-droplet-modeling-animation

    Also for the wood on the pencils on this one:

    https://cgcookie.com/lessons/pencils-modeling-animation

    In the Sci-Fi Door, JL bakes down Normal maps a lot:

    https://cgcookie.com/lessons/baking-the-normals

    There’s a bit of prepping and baking at the start in this coruse

    https://cgcookie.com/exercises/texture-a-first-person-weapon

    Baking Normal Maps course:

    https://cgcookie.com/courses/normal-map-modeling-for-games

    And lots of baking in the Sci-Fi Helmet:

    https://cgcookie.com/courses/modeling-a-sci-fi-helmet-in-blender

    https://cgcookie.com/courses/shading-the-sci-fi-helmet

    Don’t be intimidated by some courses being old and having the old UI, the core knowledge has always been there, no matter the Blender version.