I am working on an idea to create very nice textures, especially ground textures from 3d-scanned grounds. I can make them big, and cover more space than most conventional ground textures can.  I have experimented with actually baking them in Poser..

I take the 3d scanned ground, and put the camera facing it, setting the ambience node to max, connecting with the texture, deleting all lights. Works perfectly. Then I render it with auxilliary options, normals and depth.   The depth and diffuse works really well, and all I have to do is to take the resulting layered image and make it seamless.

However, the normal maps that come out of Poser's renderer are really strange.. I was thinking it would be nice to dabble with normal maps (combined with displacements), but I am still quite new with these..   The thing is, I get really strange colors from the normals when rendering them with Poser's auxiliary output, and I am also trying to understand this whole deal with tangent space vs object space normal maps.   Tangent space seems to be standard, but I have no idea how to get the right color scheme..The reason can be found in the attached screenshots..  They all give me -different- colors, depending on the camera I chose!  (I have faced the ground prop fully towards the camera in each screen, but each camera yields different colors from the normals)  So which one (if any of them) has the right colors for a normal map?  The Right camera has very typical normal map colors, but is it correct, and why would it be that angle?  Weird huh?

Back camera:

Bottom camera:

Front camera:

Left camera:

Right camera:

Top camera: