Thanks to everyone for attending the lecture on Thursday. This is a temporary page that I’ll leave up for a few weeks. Below are links to a few of the topics we discussed.

Combining Normal Maps in Photoshop:

• Project Offset’s description of the problem
• Download Alex Velazquez’ (Ravensoft) Photoshop Action (To use, there must only be two layers, the “Background” layer and a layer named “Layer 1″. No selections or alpha channels can be present.)
• Download Project Offset’s Photoshop Action

Applications:

• CrazyBump, Create normal maps from diffuse maps, height maps, or vice versa with realtime editing
  
• ShaderMap Pro, inexpensive alternative to CrazyBump
  
• Xnormal beta, Free alternative to CrazyBump
• NVIDIA Normal Map Filter, Nvidia’s grayscale-to-normal map Photoshop plugin
• Xfrog 3.5 Lite, Foliage creation program
  
• TreeMagic G3, Inexpensive alternative to Xfrog
  
• SpeedTree, 3rd party foliage system used in PC and Console games
  
• Genetica, Procedural texturing app
  

Commercial Bluescreens:

• B&H 5×7, collapsable blue ($55)
• B&H 5×7, collapsable reversable ($75)

My Info:

Please don’t hesitate to contact me at this address for any matter, large or small.