Adding Normal maps in EXISTING assets.

[John514]

The title says it all
Is there a way of adding normal maps into the existing textures of an asset?

 

[PEV]

No.. because the inclusion of normal maps requires changes to the mesh materials and the inclusion of another block of data in the geometry for each normal mapped material.

 

[John514]

OK Thanx! This thread must be destroyed!:hehe:

 

[JCitron]

OK Thanx! This thread must be destroyed!:hehe:

Why?

It's threads like this that we all learn from. I'm sure others, including myself, would have asked the same question.

John

 

[John514]

Thats what I used to think before everyone got upset for making a comment in a very old thread...

 

[JCitron]

John,

This isn't that old a thread. What people get in a snit over is when a thread is about 3 years old and comes to life with a comment on it.

But then again, they get in a snit if you don't research a question in the forum for old threads on subjects either.

Go figure,

John

 

[PEV]

Just one more comment on this.

I started a thread on this subject about 2 years ago.

At the time I was considering making a tool to add normal maps to existing meshes.

It would have worked in s similar fashion to the early PM2IM tool I wrote that used the trainzmeshimporter program. I had so many problems with that version of PM2IM that I scrapped it so the code for possibly adding normals maps was never completed. It is possible; but the broken code for INFL chunk animations prevented me from completing the exercise.

 

[John514]

Try again anytime you can please! :udrool: :mop:

 

[frogpipe]

Have you pursued this at all? Not that we don't already owe you a ton for all the great tools you've already released!