The NVIDIA Photoshop plugin bakes normal maps from a texture, not from a model. 'Duuuh, i can simply use the NVIDIA Plugin to do the Normal Map' If you try to do the same thing by hand, you might spend hours, or even days with it. Right: A simple low poly Cylinder Primitive.Īs you can see in the image, the Render-To-Texture virtually transfered all details from HighPoly model to a Low poly model, without even adding to this model a single polygon. You can gather any information from a model and convert it to a Bump or a Normal Map.įigure copied from (BTW, it is also a great tutorial to see, i highly recommend you to read) The tire on the video, and transfers that information to a map, or a texture. It copys information from a model and a scene, like If you saw the video, you got a simple idea what Render-To-Texture does.

It shows how you can transfer the details from a Hi-Poly model to a low poly model, just using the high detailed model to bake a Normal Map to the low quality model and then, every detail the high quality model has is transfered to a simple poor detailed model. Here i will compile some tutorials about Render to Texture.Īt first, what is Render to Texture and what it does?įeature #1: Accurate Normal and Bump Maps.

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