Bitmap2Material
Posted: 24 Jul 2014, 10:40
Hi Guys,
Allegorithmic, a french company who do very cool texturing tools, have a very funky tool out, called Bitmap2Material http://www.allegorithmic.com/products/bitmap2material
It takes a normal image(texture) and gives you height map, specular map, normal map, AO, etc based on some very crazy maths. This is not useful for getting AO on an entire object, but it will give you excellent results if you need some normals or specular maps for a texture but don't have the time to process the texture in a complicated fashion and generate the AO or Normal maps accurately.
Their other toolset, Substance Designer is also very crazy cool, also a 3D painting tool is available. All is available on Steam, if you have an account, and none will break the bank.
Have a look,
Erik
Allegorithmic, a french company who do very cool texturing tools, have a very funky tool out, called Bitmap2Material http://www.allegorithmic.com/products/bitmap2material
It takes a normal image(texture) and gives you height map, specular map, normal map, AO, etc based on some very crazy maths. This is not useful for getting AO on an entire object, but it will give you excellent results if you need some normals or specular maps for a texture but don't have the time to process the texture in a complicated fashion and generate the AO or Normal maps accurately.
Their other toolset, Substance Designer is also very crazy cool, also a 3D painting tool is available. All is available on Steam, if you have an account, and none will break the bank.
Have a look,
Erik