Great app. Thanks for all your work.
@B.Y.O.B. Very Nice.
I used Gimp plugin for this kind of work, but now this will speed up my process 
And your Normalmap Generator v 0.4.0 work fine on my Win7 64 with âdrag&dropâ.
I have old PC and this is good peace of soft for my hobbyist toolbox.
Thanks for your work and sharing with us.
For all âAwesomebumpâ look awesome, but need Graphic Card with OpenGL 3.30 and above support)
works like a charm. Thanks very much for its investment
I implemented a new gaussian blur filter for the displacement map generator.
It is slightly faster than the old box filter and looks much better.
So far no new binaries, I want to solve some other issues first.
Iâve been using this generator almost exclusively for a while now. Love it a lot. Thanks for sharing.
Thatâ great! Thanks for sharing BYOB
I finally took the time to look into cross-compiling and it worked quite nicely.
So thereâs now a Windows 32bit binary available with the following changes:
- New gaussian blur filter for displacement maps, faster and better looking than the old box filter
- Can now load whole folders at once (e.g. via drag and drop)
- Can now set custom colors for the user interface
- New shortcuts: Ctrl+O to open images, numbers 1-4 to switch between tabs, Ctrl+S to save images
Download: https://github.com/Theverat/NormalmapGenerator/releases/tag/0.4.1
Thank you. Very handy!
@B.Y.O.B.
Your normal map tool is by far the best free stand-alone generator Iâve ever tried.
(AwesomeBumpâs interface is unusable. xNormal feels like itâs forever stuck in the ninetiesâŚ)
If youâre reading this and you still intend to continue developing this tool, please have a good look at this online generator:
https://cpetry.github.io/NormalMap-Online/
Apart from your incredible âkeep large detailâ feature which I absolutely love, Normal Map Online has all the features that your generator is still missing. Basically, all you need to do is to copy them one by one (and improve if possible).
- smooth and precise sliders(!!) for everything
- 3D preview with diffuse, normal, spec, AO, displacement, mapped onto different primitive meshes
- perfectly done AO
Two minor bugs I found in your tool:
- Every time you press âprocess queueâ a slash is added at the end of the output path.
- Using âSave Mapsâ and then double-clicking on a texture does not overwrite it, but instead creates (a) new file(s) called for example: test_normal_normal.png. Maybe files shouldnât be visible in this explorer window at all, since the user is only meant to choose a target folder.
Thanks for your feedback guys, glad to hear my tool is useful.
Over the last days I made some minor code improvements which resulted in small performance gain and smaller memory footprint.
So far only Windows binaries up, as my Linux Qt build environment is completely messed up. I hate compiling.
- smooth and precise sliders(!!) for everything
Yes, the UI definitely needs a redesign. Too many buttons thrown in in a random fashion. Not surprising since this is basically an in-house-tool (for me alone).
- 3D preview with diffuse, normal, spec, AO, displacement, mapped onto different primitive meshes
This was requested by others, too. Itâs a good idea and Iâll take a look how this could be implemented with Qt, but it is not top priority for me as the rendered result is what counts, and so far all these previews were rather far from a rendered result in my experience.
- perfectly done AO
I never used AO maps myself so far, so this is also low priority for me. But itâs an entry in the bug tracker.
- Using âSave Mapsâ and then double-clicking on a texture does not overwrite it, but instead creates (a) new file(s) called for example: test_normal_normal.png. Maybe files shouldnât be visible in this explorer window at all, since the user is only meant to choose a target folder.
I use it like this: load a map, generate the maps I want, then click save and leave the name as it is. The generated maps are then saved (or overwritten) with their respective suffix, like _normal, _spec etc.
I should make this clear in the UI somehow or do as you suggest and only display a folder selector, not a file selector dialogue. And I should probably show a warning before overwriting anything
- Every time you press âprocess queueâ a slash is added at the end of the output path.
Heh, funny. Iâll look into it.
regards
Simon
Just wanted to chime in and say âthank youâ for this normal map generator. I use Photolineâs external app link, with which I can send layers of my textures to your tool, process them, and save in an output folder. Works really well - your generator accepts the images, and it makes quick work of texture conversions.
By the way, I noticed the output is 8bit per channel only? Is 16bpc possible as well?
Iâm using Qtâs QImage for image loading, storing and saving, and unfortunately it seems like it does not support 16 bit images.
I would have to use a different framework to be able to support 16 bit or higher.
I can take a look how much work that would be.
Normalmaps usually donât need this much precision (after my experience), but for spec- and displacementmaps this would be a great feature indeed.
Works great !!!
ps: A small tutorial are appreciate too, beginners will like it
Thank you for your contribution to the community. This tool is great.
Hi,
the development stalled for a long time, but a few weeks ago I was contacted by Nikita on github who wrote a patch for this program. He added an OpenGL 3D preview window, even with tesselation support!
I uploaded a release that you can test here: https://github.com/Theverat/NormalmapGenerator/releases/tag/v0.4.5_beta
Note that this feature was not tested much, so there might be bugs to discover.
If you find a bug, please open a bug report in our issue tracker on github: https://github.com/Theverat/NormalmapGenerator/issues
thanks,very nice addition.specular mapâs influence is not seen in 3d view,is it yet to be implemented?(win 64bit)
Hi, I would like to test the beta version but Windows 10 delete my file all the time once itâs downloaded ?
It writes there is trojan âŚ