NormalMap Generator Online

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For everyone who needs a NormalMap Generator for Windows, Mac, Linux and whatever…:
I have build an online in-browser free normal map generator.

http://cpetry.github.io/NormalMap-Online/

Screenshot:
http://cpetry.github.io/NormalMap-Online/images/screenshot_small.png

Please give feedback, post ideas or problems you encounter.

Greetz,
Christian

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…great thing…

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how about, that just tried it out , work’s perfectly. woho alway’s amazed at the thing’s the blender community puts out’s there. this is really gonna come in handy. great job, thank’s

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Not sure how it relates to Blender addons, but it’s a nice and useful tool with a live preview. It’s also platform independent, which is great.
Is there a chance for an offline version, even if it’s used locally in the browser?
As a suggestion a larger preview windows would be useful.

Other than that, good work :slight_smile:

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nice tool :slight_smile:
@Lamoot: in your browser, open the normal map generator online page, then do: File->Save as-> something.html

then open that file, to use it offline. it will work

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It’s possible to run it locally.
Download https://github.com/cpetry/NormalMap-Online/archive/gh-pages.zip, unpack it.
In the comand line:
cd to the directory containing index.html
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
The last command starts a simple local webbrowser.
Then open http://localhost:8000/index.html in your browser

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@chaosbard, @vvoovv: thanks for the tip.

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That’s great! Do you plan the ability to generate other maps such as the Crazy bump"?

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This is really cool. Kinda reminds me of Knald a bit. As a suggestion: More types of 3d Models for the previewer. Maybe allowing for custom models?

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Thank you very much!

I’m in the middle of my exams and don’t have much time at the moment.

For now I will only let it create normalmaps.
Perhaps when I got more time, I consider (like crazy bump) getting more info out of photos.

As for 3D-Models it would be more difficult… perhaps it’s possible for “.fbx”-files.

But I will see to it, that it is something you guys would really use from time to time!
That would be great!

BTW:
It will remain free and inside browser for as long as the internet lives! ^^

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Oh yes, larger preview is implemented! (magnify-icon)

I can’t understand why you would want to use it offline (it’s inside the browser anyway)
but yes you could do that with a python server.
BUT ! then no automatic updates for you :slight_smile:

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Added displacement map.

How would you want to change the displacement map?
For now I added a function to change contrast.

Try it out!

Greetz,
Christian

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As you can see I added ambient occlusion maps.
I think I will add some explanations and help texts next.

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great ! like this

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Thank you for this!

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Added some more features:

  • Downloadable filesize now much higher (browser specific ~ 600MB max)
  • Download file choosable with name and type as PNG or JPG (with compression settings)
  • Input dimensions (heightmap) are now equal to output dimensions
  • Simple filechooser
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Changes:

  • added specular map
  • added invert button for ambient occlusion
  • corrected white as “high” and black as “low”
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Great, thank you!

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Huge performance update!

Now switched to GPU with shaders for normal maps (all other maps will be updated too)
~90% faster calculation!

Please report any problems if you get any!

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Great news :yes:

Edit
Something is wrong when I switch view to a different model …