By default, the blending mode of the normal channel on any new layer is set to 'Normal map details'. 3 - Changing the fill layer blending mode. Dont forget to change the default tilling of the fill layer if it not set to 1. Create a new fill layer and put the baked normal inside the 'normal' slot, via the properties panel. The downside of this gray is that everything you make from it, looks like dull plastic. 2 - Setting a fill layer with the baked normal map. Unlike a Bump map, Normal maps can be very difficult edit in Photoshop. It also gives you an interactive 3D preview, with controls on how to generate the image that will make up your Normal map.

The Generate Normal Map dialog box is almost identical to the Generate Bump Map dialog box. I mostly use the 50ies gray (#808080) for bumpmapping (Bevels especially). It has the advantage that it becomes transparent in 'Hard Light' Mode, so you are only left with the shadows and highlights. Normal maps are as easy to create in Photoshop as Bump maps. Normal mapping is a way to create pseudo-shadows and highlights by specifying a normal map that has height and height information separate from the normal texture of an object, and to express an uneven appearance even if the mesh is not uneven. You can find some examples and a tutorial written by me here: The shadow effect is created by using the bumpmap filter. (03-06-2018, 09:34 PM)grit Wrote: If I make some shapes in GIMP how to create normal maps so that shadows are correctly displayed. I could not find any benefit in using them, compared to the usual grayscale Gimp bumpmaps. There is a plug-in you can install to convert images into normalmaps but it seems it only makes sense for 3D applications like Blender. Because of this, when you have a normal map that causes the surface to bump out, the geometry. For the right side, this is correct since the normal maps were generated from these faces, but for the left side, these normals are reversed because the geometry was flipped from the right to the left using the symmetry modifier. They are like bumpmaps, but not grayscale. When we create a normal map, it deforms the surface using RGB values. I experimented a bit with normalmaps for displacement effects.

Creating normal map