Sateesh Malla - VFX Artist » 3D Apps http://www.sateeshmalla.com Sateesh Malla's Portfolio and Demo Reel Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:03:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Crazy Bump http://www.sateeshmalla.com/blog/2008/09/crazy-bump/ http://www.sateeshmalla.com/blog/2008/09/crazy-bump/#comments Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:10:37 +0000 Sateesh Malla http://www.sateeshmalla.com/?p=473 There is an amazing helper software for texturing called Crazy Bump. I’m planning to put it to good use. All you have to do is supply a texture, and it automatically generates the bump, displacement, normal, etc maps for you. The are a many options to customize how much of each you want – really fantastic. I highly recommend it. The website has a good introductory tutorial on how it works.

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  1. Select the imported object with new UV maps
  2. Shift select the destination object in the maya to copy to.
  3. Set the Menu to Polygons
  4. Select Mesh
  5. Select Copy Transfer Attributes
  6. Select UV Maps to transfer
  7. Apply

The Headus website has very good video tutorials as well.

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