Hey everyone! How do you guys generate normal maps(and other

>>551574
PS has a built in tool to make normal maps or you could use crazybump.

>>551574
that honestly seems to be more of a lighting fault than anything, have you tried playing with lighting in your scene? Notice how the MindTex preview has a few strong light sources (with varied colors and positions), while your marmoset scene has some really uniform diffuse lighting and nothing else.

>>551574

I know crazybump adds a displacement map in the viewer, dont know about the other program. Try importing the displacement map as well to see if it's the same as the other viewers.

>>551574

Awesome Bump is a pretty easy to use program for doing that.

http://cpetry.github.io/NormalMap-Online/ this has been my go-to when I make normal maps. Good for other similar maps too.

https://www.katsbits.com/tutorials/textures/how-not-to-make-normal-maps-from-photos-or-images.php

read this article if you want to have a basic understanding of how to make normal maps using handpainted bumpmaps.

>>551574
Generating Normal maps from photos is not the correct way. It might work with some under certain circumstances, but overall its better to use the photo as base and create a heightmap yourself and create the Normal from that.

>>552659
as mentioned on >>552657

>>551574
Bro, do you even bake? Oh I forgot, you probably don't use blender. We Jedi duplicate our low polys, multires, then sculpt said duplicate, Then it's just a matter of selecting both objects and clicking the bake button. You'll learn, one day padawan. You'l learn.

>>552657
>when your article is so old it refers to Doom 3 as a "next-gen" game

>>551574
Making good normalmaps from texture images is near impossible. It always looks like a disgusting blob. I've tried this shit for years.
Even with neutral lighting and editing the heightmap from which you generate the normals it won't capture it correctly.
Either get yourself a program like substance designer or quixel or whatever and make textures yourself, or get photographs from different angles to create a 3d mesh from it, or look for textures that already come with a heightmap/mesh laserscan.

>>551576
this.