Quick bump, normal and displacement maps!

Not sure if anyone has posted this yet but this little program is pretty cool.

http://www.crazybump.com/

Quick and easy maps for bump, normals, displacement and specular and its free as it is still
in beta!

Too bad SL doesnt support those.

Maybe not useful for SL but I can use this elsewhere. Thanks Infiniview.

Normal maps can still be very useful for SL when used for baking. I have male and female normal maps with much more detailed anatomy that I use for baking avatar textures.

Thanks for the link! I'd seen that about a year about and then forgot all about it. Quite a nifty little app.

It definitely applies to SL if you do any sort of rendering on your images or textures prior to
uploading to SL.

And sure my pleasure


The differing maps that is produces are designed to be assigned to the relevant channels
in your rendering engine and while it is not impossible for SL to build in a multi-channel user
accessible system for dynamic rendering. I believe it would be a fairly massive jump in
processing overhead especially in relation to the current infrastructure of SL.

If you do not have a renderer, Daz studio is actually a pretty good one for the price...free.
And it also has all the channels for applying these kind of maps at which point your render
is the final result that one would crop and prep for SL.