Link Fence and the joy of normal maps

I've been making some meshes for a game level, and now that I can easily make normal maps in FF I'm so very, very sad that UT2004 doesn't support normal maps

Here's a render from 3ds Max with the normal maps enabled. Note that the textures were all made with FF (barbed wire on its way , and the sky was made with Michael Lambert's BlueSkies )

The colour contrast comes up much less without the normal mapping, so I need to go into Photoshop and manually play with the diffuse maps, then bake in reasonable lighting and turn off UT2004's lights I can't wait for UT2007.

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Vladimir Golovin wrote: The fence looks perfectly natural. Eevry time I see your work I have to remind myself that I'm looking at a procedural texture.

you're not the only one, vlad. i took a look at the innards of that filter... simply brilliant.

nicely done, mike!

craig