[Topgun]

how can you convert a nor map from crazybump to freespace? everytime I try it gives backward normals.

[Hellstryker]

What IS crazybump?

[Topgun]

http://www.crazybump.com/

[Hellstryker]

Interesting, maybe ill download it.

[taylor]

Flip X.  Everything else should be normal/default, but FS wants the X value flipped.

That was done because some apps have X flipped (I think it was Maya, if I remember what I was told correctly) and don't give you the option of not doing that.  So, in order to make things easier in such cases, the code wants X flipped.


I'm assuming that's the problem anyway.

[Vasudan Admiral]

Also remember to save it as a DXT5_NM type of DDS file. Crazybump doesn't produce these automatically so you'll have to do that separately. Applying a normal map from crazybump as it's produced from there would look....messed up.

[Topgun]

does alpha on normal maps matter? crazybump gives no alpha but some of the normal maps in the media vps have alpha. what's it used for?