Texture Normal Mapping

[saupreusse]

I hope this is the right forum for this topic
Just have a question to the devs: Is it possible to create normal maps for warhammer?
As I was browsing the game texture files, i saw some specular maps which are most used for shiny heavy armor or shields.
But I couldn't find a single normal map. Maybe I'm just blind or does the game really not use any normal maps?

[greenstoned]

i do modeling myself, and normal maps is the stuff to get god looking graphics while keeping a low poly count. as far as it is concerned here tho, i think its prolly a matter of game engine, altho im not sure. not every game engine can handle normal maps, and not that many games from the time around war's realease had em

[saupreusse]

hmm yeah thats exactly why i am asking. would be nice if one of the devs would say somth daanaa told me it would be possible ( maybe). (he's not that much into texturing ).
War uses DirectX9 (D3D9) so there should be no problem from this point of view...
And if it is possible, we could form a team that could try to implement some nice normal maps.
The graphics would be so much better without much performance cost. And its much more easier to create a normal map than reworking a texture imo. (though some textures could need a rework, but I suck at it)

[saupreusse]

I mean look at it this took me 30 seconds... and it looks much better with a normal map attached to it. It is the floor texture of the brightwizard academy in emp city. If its possible to throw dem normal maps into the game I would gladly help making some.

Edit: I only used Freeware to create this normal map.
-Adobe Photoshop Cs2 (yes it is free, you can download it for free on the adobe website, but you must create an acc)
-Nvidia Texture Tools Plugin for PS CS"X" (https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-tex ... -photoshop)
I know there are a lot of ways to create normals, but this one is pretty fast and easy to use.
And if normal mapping is not working, maybe bump mapping would. need an answer!

[greenstoned]

atm its more of a hobby for me, waiting on answers from different schools to see if i can get in a serious program to make a career out of it stating in august, but im more of a modeler than a texture artist, so im more used to applying em to objects and char models than ground textures and such

i usually use zbrush to bake my normal maps, import a low poly model from 3dsmax divide it sculpt it bake a normal map and then export back to 3dsmax for rendering

[redcloud]

ekhm....
"Only customers who legitimately purchased CS2 or Acrobat 7 and need to maintain their current use of these products may use the serial numbers provided during the download."

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/ ... loads.html

There's still the Gimp .
Ont he other hand I like the way this game is going. Players want to improve it! LOVE IT!!

[saupreusse]

ekhm....
"Only customers who legitimately purchased CS2 or Acrobat 7 and need to maintain their current use of these products may use the serial numbers provided during the download."

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/ ... loads.html

There's still the Gimp .
Ont he other hand I like the way this game is going. Players want to improve it! LOVE IT!!

im sure its free cause I just downloaded it today. i dont think they changed it in the past few hours.
But I need someone to teach me how to put the modded files into the game.

[PartizanRUS]

I think they can't add Normal maps because they need to recode engine's renderer(of the client) to add bump mapping support. To do that they will need source code and I doubt you can hack this things up. So it could be we're stuck with this graphic until someone will steal source code from EA :]

[saupreusse]

I think they can't add Normal maps because they need to recode engine's renderer(of the client) to add bump mapping support. To do that they will need source code and I doubt you can hack this things up. So it could be we're stuck with this graphic until someone will steal source code from EA :]

and thats exactly why i asked here. im still waiting for an answer of one of the devs.
As I said: Daanaa thinks it works. ^^

[saupreusse]

well, i found it out myself! IT IS POSSIBLE! normal maps must be named filename_normal.
should work in theory, wasnt able to try it out though. looking forward to do so in time.