![]() So for that, go to the File menu of the menu bar and click on the Export As option. Now export this as a PNG or JPEG file for using it in any other 3d modeling software. Once you have done all your desired settings, hit on the Ok button of the normal map dialog box.Īnd you will have your normal map on your texture with your set parameters of the normal map. It will give you an idea of how it will look when you use it on the 3d model. You can choose the Cube, Sphere or any other which you want. You can also see your preview in another 3d shape. You can increase light or decrease light on your texture. Next is Rotate Light button click on it for selecting it. The first button is ‘Rotate object’ click on it for enabling it, and you can rotate your texture object. Let us analyze them also for better handling on a normal map. We have some option at the top of this preview window. So you can go with this option according to your choice. It will go in the inward direction of the plane.Īnd once you disable it, you can see it will come in the outward direction of the plane. Now enable the Invert X option of this dialog box and see its effect on embossed details. ![]() You can hold the keyboard’s Alt key, then make the right click of the mouse and hold it also then move the mouse to zoom in or zoom out this object in the preview window. Increase the value of scale for enhancing more details. I will choose a 3 x 3 filter that will adjust RGB values in 3 x 3 pixels of this texture and embossed its details. You can see the effect of every filter of this list one by one on your texture. Now you can use any one of the Filters of Normal map boxes from this list to apply them to this texture for increasing details of material of texture. You can see now there is a brick shape on your texture plane. Hold this block in 3d preview box and rotate to see the texture on this plane. Now click on 3d Preview button of this dialog box for seeing the 3d preview of this texture. Now re-open this dialog box, and this time you will have this two option active like others. You can see Alpha channel and Height source option are disabled in this dialog box, so for enabling them, go to the layers panel of GIMP and make right-click on the texture layer, then click on Add Alpha channel option of the scroll-down list. Once you click on this option, you will have this Normalmap dialog box. You will have this normal map option only in this list if you have installed this normal map plugin on your computer. Now go to Filters menu of the Menu bar and go to Map option, then click on Normalmap option of new scroll down list. We are doing this for having good contrast between the black and white colors of this image. ![]() Now drag this area of the curve in the upper direction for increasing brightness of bright areas of this image.ĭrag the left area of the curve in a downward direction for making the dark area of the image darker. You can go with any one of the options for doing this that is Brightness-Contrast, Levels, or Curves. Now let us make the bright area brighter and the dark area darker of this texture image. Now choose the Lightness option in the Mode option of desaturating dialog box and hit ok. Go to the Colors menu of a menu bar, then go on Desaturate and click on Desaturate option of the new scroll down list. Let us make it more black and white to see the normal map effect on it. Click on the Open option for having this texture in GIMP.Ĭhoose your desired folder, and then the desired file of texture hit on Open button. Now go to the GIMP user interface and click on the File menu of the menu bar. Now let us have a texture for applying a normal map for texture search texture on browsers. And paste it into the bin folder of GIMP. ![]()
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