Post by ayshala42 on Jan 6, 2023 19:56:37 GMT -5
Is there a plug-in that helps create normal maps using Paint.net? I cant afford to pay. Or another easy, free program I can use?
The story is... Ive finally come back to the sims and ive created some fun recolors with the amazing Sims4Studio. However, they were rejected because I had no idea about the normal map needing changed. I didnt even know normal maps exsisted! LOL
Im very artistic and very bad with computer knowledge! I'm seriously technology and money challenged. So I used Paint.net...learned to do recolors. Tried Blender, got insanely overwhelmed. Used a normal map generator and tried to import it into paint.net with a plugin for channel extraction. Nothing looks right and my normal map is just a gray image of my texture that seems flat and lifeless in game. It creates some shading in game, so something must be working on the alpha channel, right? The paint.net plugin i found doesnt seem to work well for sims 4.
Basically I need some sort of free program to help me with normal maps for objects so I can do recolors/retextures of wood turned into tile and such. No interest in meshing, as it's far too complicated for me.
The story is... Ive finally come back to the sims and ive created some fun recolors with the amazing Sims4Studio. However, they were rejected because I had no idea about the normal map needing changed. I didnt even know normal maps exsisted! LOL
Im very artistic and very bad with computer knowledge! I'm seriously technology and money challenged. So I used Paint.net...learned to do recolors. Tried Blender, got insanely overwhelmed. Used a normal map generator and tried to import it into paint.net with a plugin for channel extraction. Nothing looks right and my normal map is just a gray image of my texture that seems flat and lifeless in game. It creates some shading in game, so something must be working on the alpha channel, right? The paint.net plugin i found doesnt seem to work well for sims 4.
Basically I need some sort of free program to help me with normal maps for objects so I can do recolors/retextures of wood turned into tile and such. No interest in meshing, as it's far too complicated for me.
