Free NormalMap Generator Online

For everyone who needs a NormalMap Generator for Mac, Linux and whatever...:
I have build my own online in-browser free normal map generator.
Please share and give feedback!

http://cpetry.github.io/NormalMap-Online/

Screenshot:


Greetz,
Christian

 

Did include gaussian sharpen and some performance improvements.
If someone has ideas or other enhancements, I would be glad to implement.

Thanks!

 

Very cool tool. It's sad that there are not so many option for Mac these days.

 

Thank you very much!

Yes I heard that seems to be a big problem.
Safari also seems to have its trouble with the preview window...
For now it will be optimized for firefox and chrome only.

 

Added a bigger view for the rendered part and rotation by mouse (click & drag).
Slowly looking better...

 

Displacement and ambient occlusion added.

 

How come that there are so less posts? This is an excellent tool! Thank you very much. It will come in majorly handy.

 

Really appreciate this! Thank you very much for sharing such an awesome and useful tool!

 

Nice tool, thanks

Can it calculate height/normal map from Diffuse map ?

 

That's not logically possible. A diffuse map can not always give you the depth of a material.

Here (for example some kind of tiled checker kitchen floor) you wouldn't like to have one tile to be deeper than the other tiles. Therefor the height map has to be different.
But of course, most of the time you can easily create a height map from a diffuse map with the proper tools...

Diffuse Map <--> Height Map


Though it is possible to try to receive depth information from photos, I am not sure how to do this... but it is still something i'd like to learn about in the future.

 

Added some more features:

• Downloadable filesize now much higher (browser specific ~ 600MB max)
• Download file choosable with name and type as PNG or JPG (with compression settings)
• Input dimensions (heightmap) are now equal to output dimensions
• Simple filechooser

 

Awesome dude!

 

Hi Guys!

I got asked to make some changes.
So here they are:

• added specular map
• added invert button for ambient occlusion
• corrected white as "high" and black as "low"

I really appreciate all your feedback!
Thank you very much!

 

this is very useful, you're saving my time for hours!

 

Thanks a lot. But can you add the option to tell the generation process that the texture is tileable. I noticed it generates borders around the image.
Thanks

 

Well that should be implemented. Could you please explain (or show in pictures) your problem?

Thanks to your post though, I reviewed my implementation and found a small bug.
Edges were a little bit distorted. Now there shouldn't be any problem with that.

 

Tileable see here:

 

Thanks,
that looks much better now!

 

Huge performance update!

Now switched to GPU with shaders for normal maps (all other maps will be updated too)
~90% faster calculation!


Please report any problems if you get any!

 

This is exactly what I've been looking for, thank you for doing this!

 

Well, after a long time adding smaller features...
Big update: NormalMaps from pictures

Just take four pictures of your surface (with different light positions) and drag them on the correct position in the viewport.



Done.

 

When i put 2 pictures the screen turns black an i need to restart my PC. I have tryed twice, but was the same result. Please make something with this. I am using Chrome.

 

Well, I couldn't reproduce your error. Could you please try to be more precise?

For example:
What images are you using? What OS?
Does some kind of javascript error occur when using it?
Which mode are you talking about? Heightmap or 4 pictures?
What graphics card do you use? What is its temperature?

 

Works great! Glad I found it.

 

I just get black images in JPG, and completely white in PNG when I choose download.

 

Thank you so much

 

On behalf of the entire Unity community, THANK YOU! this is absolutely great. You are the true MVP!

 

Works like a charm. Thank you!

 

Thank you SOOOOO MUCH!!! It really helped me and saved me TONS of time!

 

Sadly does not work anymore, when I hit download all I get is black images

 

I just tried it, worked fine. ??

 

Same as for darktorch, I get the black images

 

Same as Darktorch4 and Moontan. Just black images when I click download.

 

Working good in firefox v.58

 

works here in auto-updated chrome, win7

 

Certain Images at 512x512 nearly crash the whole Chrome window when trying to converting. For the most part, it works perfectly.

 

Think it was actually an issue on the end of the image program, and I was using a larger image size.

 

It seems other companies seem to extract depth from luminescence values, from normals or a combination.

 

I need metallic map generation and height map generation.