Tweek
April 24th, 2007, 09:53 AM
parallax mapping FOR MORONS
not sure where to put this, but who cares right?
i made a little video tutorial on how to render normalmaps/heightmaps of high res geometry using Render to texture in MAX
it's an EXTREMELY basic tutorial, and therefore rather sucky, but you still might learn somethign from it.
it cover how the Render to texture dialog works in the most basic form. how to convert a normalmap to a heightmap (only needed if you're stupid like me). how to put your heightmap into the normalmap alphachannel. how to set up a DirectX 9 shader in MAX, and how to use the specific parallax mapping shader.
it's alot of fast clickedy-click, so try to keep up or something.
CLICKY (http://files.filefront.com/parallax_tutwmv/;7329234;/fileinfo.html)
not sure where to put this, but who cares right?
i made a little video tutorial on how to render normalmaps/heightmaps of high res geometry using Render to texture in MAX
it's an EXTREMELY basic tutorial, and therefore rather sucky, but you still might learn somethign from it.
it cover how the Render to texture dialog works in the most basic form. how to convert a normalmap to a heightmap (only needed if you're stupid like me). how to put your heightmap into the normalmap alphachannel. how to set up a DirectX 9 shader in MAX, and how to use the specific parallax mapping shader.
it's alot of fast clickedy-click, so try to keep up or something.
CLICKY (http://files.filefront.com/parallax_tutwmv/;7329234;/fileinfo.html)