Click OK. Your normal map is created and applied to the shape. There’s a preview of your shape, and you can adjust Contrast Details and all that fun stuff. Click that and select Generate Normals From Base Color…Īfter a few seconds, the Generate Normal Map window opens: There’s a button at the bottom labeled Normal. Right now our texture is loaded into the Base Color channel. The Properties panel changes to reflect options corresponding to the material properties. In the 3D panel, you’ll see an object name with _Material. Some kind of magic happens inside Photoshop and it creates a scene with your texture loaded onto an object. I like to use a Sphere, but it doesn’t really matter. In the 3D panel, select Mesh From Preset, and choose a shape: Open the texture you want to create a bump map for. Open Photoshop and switch to the 3D Workspace: Open Texture in Photoshopįor this example, I’ll use a leather texture found on : Please Note: The 3D functionality is not available in Photoshop versions CS6 and prior, and therefore will be unable to create normal maps. While CrazyBump is a great piece of software, I hadn’t realized it was already possible using the popular photo-editing software, Photoshop. Normal maps fake the lighting on textures to create additional detail, without adding more polygons.įor normals, I figured you had to always rely on a 3rd party application such as CrazyBump. When creating textures for use in a 3D application or game, sometimes it’s necessary to add finer detail, such as a bump map or normal map.
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