fuzzoom opened this issue on Mar 26, 2013 · 7 posts
fuzzoom posted Tue, 26 March 2013 at 1:38 PM
I have Carrara 7.2 Pro. I bought an Inagoni plug-in Deeper that is supposed to create and display normal map textures in Carrara. I can't get Deeper to work at all. Does anyone else have Deeper and have been able to use it? Also, would a program like Crazybump or nDo work?
MarkBremmer posted Tue, 26 March 2013 at 2:12 PM
Deeper works to generate normal maps FROM Carrara Geometry. It also was able to render normal maps as texutres prior to that function being embedded in Carrara.
So, you can use Deeper to 'take a picture' of your scene to generate normal maps to match and enhance exising geometry.
However, if the goal is simply to create texture maps that also have a normal map bump included, CrazyBump is super. That's what I use.
fuzzoom posted Tue, 26 March 2013 at 2:21 PM
Thanks, Mark! :-)
GKDantas posted Tue, 26 March 2013 at 4:00 PM
Hi, I use Deeper to render NormalMaps in Carrara 7.2 or less, only Carrara 8 have normal maps as default.
I use ShaderMap Pro to generate my normal maps:
http://shadermap.com
Filterforge also generate NM for almost all theyr presets and its amazing.
Smart Normal also can generate NM for free:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=en_us&extid=1817528
To create normal maps from your geometries theres also Smak, that is free now:
http://getsmak.com/
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fuzzoom posted Tue, 26 March 2013 at 5:11 PM
Thank you GK, I hadn't heard of these programs before. Shadermap Pro especially looks like a good one to buy.
booksbydavid posted Wed, 27 March 2013 at 11:06 AM
There's also xNormal
www.xnormal.net
It's free as well.
3Drendero posted Wed, 27 March 2013 at 1:47 PM
And also a normalmap for GIMP, for those that want free plugins for their free softwares:
http://code.google.com/p/gimp-normalmap/#Download