Blender 3d Realistic Earth Tutorial-Part 1: Normal Maps

[SauronsEye]

You do know that you can make a bump map out of a photo in Blender?

Create a mesh that you'll use to project your image against. With the mesh selected, create a material. Go to textures, add a texture. add your image. Then uncheck colour, check normals and RGB to intensity. You adjust the normals value to determine the level of the bump map.

Unchecking colours and checking RGB to intensity changes the image to a black and white image.

[ultrasuperbox]

@SauronsEye Yeah, I just remembered lol. Would've been a lot easier if I done that. Thanks for the heads up though.