I basically work with a game engine which uses outdated bump maps to texture, as apposed to normal maps. I’ve tried looking this up, and all I could do was find info on displacement maps which are vastly different. The engine also requires the usage of dds files

Hi there! I think it should not be hard. It does not really matter what type of texture you need. If you mean bump as a BW image, you can bake that. If you bake bump or whatever texture as normal data, you will end up with a normal map even if you started from a BW nodetree. It will look like a ra…

[image] sircatsalot: which are vastly different. Bump maps are greyscaled images which are used to fake the light “angle” (normal) of the pixels on a surface. (The normal is computed by the difference to its neighbor.) (real) Normal Maps do hold the information of the normal (XYZ) for a pixe…

Indeed, @sircatsalot if you read the official manual, it sums it up quite good: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/2.79/render/blender_render/textures/properties/influence/bump_normal.html Normal maps are said to be a bit better for storing more correct info, but depending on usage, it mostly does…

blender supports dds format but i don’t know blender can export it or not [Capture L.PNG]

Blender only reads dds files, it doesn’t write them.

Yes its as @EAW stated. But to give you some solutions at hand, eg Imagemagick could be used to solve it: [image] ImageMagick Create, Edit, Compose, or Convert Digital Images [image] .DDS files with Blender? Materials and Textures …

Hi @sircatsalot Just curious, may I ask what type of texture and object you want, and in what style? Like stylized, realistic, for close up or strategy kinda setting, etc?

Is it possible to bake a bump map, then export it as a dds file?

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Yes its as @EAW stated. But to give you some solutions at hand, eg Imagemagick could be used to solve it: