The gravel in the image has a normal map but i don’t think it looks very good. i want the gravel very round. Any ideas on making really great normal maps?
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with the help of crazy bump, the image can be re-generated five times , each with separate properties of normal, color, displace, specularity, and displacement. then in cycles render engine, using nodes, the bump map effect can be reproduced well
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digiman
Use another image. this one is stretched.
To create normal map from picture, use Gimp Normal Map Plugin.
Prescriptive guidance found here:
http://www.blenderguru.com/videos/the-secrets-of-realistic-texturing/