#PIXPLANT OR CRAZYBUMP PRO#
#PIXPLANT OR CRAZYBUMP SOFTWARE#

Is it just me? Right now, I'm inclined to shell out the extra for CrazyBump, but I'd welcome some feedback from more experienced people on these or possibly other tools. CrazyBump is simple, easy-to-use yet professional 2D photo-to-3D map. I've tried playing with the settings in both, but CrazyBump consistently gives me better results. v5.0, v3.0 PixPlant Quickly create seamless 3D textures and maps from photos. Set the Coordinates to be UV, under the mapping section of the texture tab. Click on the texture tab in the properties window.

#PIXPLANT OR CRAZYBUMP PRO#

ShaderMap Pro was also pointed out to me that does similar work, but at a much lower. Im playing with the CB demo now and its really fantastic at what it does, but what it does is not 300 worth of software. ShaderMap seems to have overly blurred the results, leading to a more plasticky feel even with this natural texture input (BeachStones.jpg from our media folder). Add a material to your imported object (if it does not already have one). Andrew, I wonder if you have considered incorporating something like CrazyBump into 3DC. Im following this with interest, but dont quite understand waht this guy is doing. Now, of course they're probably using slightly different shaders, but even just looking at the normal & displacement maps, CrazyBump has definitely preserved more detail. CrazyBump in particular seems to preserve much more detail and offers more options for tweaking. I've tested the demos from both, and by my eye CrazyBump significantly outperforms ShaderMap Pro in the files that I've thrown at it. They're quite different in price, with CB coming in at $299, and SMP at a mere $19.99.

#PIXPLANT OR CRAZYBUMP SOFTWARE#

Hi folk, I'm in the market for a good tool for generating normal / displacement / specular maps from photos, and so far the 2 main contenders appear to be CrazyBump and ShaderMap Pro. While the software is great at what it does, it comes at a higher cost than most software that does similar things when it comes to generating normal maps.

Pixplant or crazybump