DeadDragon Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 How Can I convert a texture to a nomal map (bump map) I affinity photo or affinity designer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted July 23, 2018 Staff Share Posted July 23, 2018 Hi @DeadDragon, Welcome to the forums. We do not have a Bump/normal map generator built in. Sorry Thanks, Gabe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadDragon Posted July 23, 2018 Author Share Posted July 23, 2018 On 12/16/2016 at 2:40 PM, myclay said: Hello Scott, Ok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myclay Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 Hello DeadDragon, since you mentioned me, Affinity Photo is to a certain grade with what it provides with a bit of trickery of layers, styles and blendings able to mimic the result of Normalmaps. Serif did imo a great job so far in providing the tools and its up to us users to bend the tools to get results which developers haven´t implemented. For turning images easily into normalmaps without a lot of manual editing, there would be quite a need for far stronger macro abilities, so far I wasn´t able to get further in the image conversion than what you can see in the below image. you could also give, if you have an Nvidia card in your device, the NVIDIA Texture Tools for Adobe Photoshop a chance, it can break and is quite old but it somehow seems to work a bit with Affinity Photo. https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-texture-tools-adobe-photoshop Quote Sketchbook (with Affinity Suite usage) | timurariman.com | artstation store Windows 11 Pro - 23H2 | Ryzen 5800X3D | RTX 3090 - 24GB | 128GB | Main SSD with 1TB | SSD 4TB | PCIe SSD 256GB (configured as Scratch disk) | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 Or use Crazybump Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ijed Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 There's also this: http://cpetry.github.io/NormalMap-Online/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maestrorobertus Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 There is actually a simple trick to do that with FX. You need to layer to fx, to do that you need to groups and place your shapes below. The shapes need to have the default normal map color. Then you need a bevel effect on both groups with 45° 45° light and then second with -45° the first will have green vs pink and then second blue vs. white. and both FX groups need to use overlay. I did this for adding Text to a normal map. It did work perfect. Not so easy to use, but if the developers would be not so lazy, they could easily add that to the FX or Styles.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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