Basic Maya Normal Mapping

This is a very basic walkthrough of how easy it is to produce a normal map within maya for an organically shaped object. I experimented on this one tutorial and made a vid of single high resolution frames. Each frame of the tutorial lasts for 10 seconds...you will need to pause on certain frames to keep the tutorial moving at your own pace.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Normal Mapping
• Maya
• Textures
• Texturing
• Modeling
• Polygons
• 3D
• Render

[PolyNurb]

One thing I noticed that is a major flaw for this video is the fact the compression still got the best of my super crisp HD video and you can't make out some of the normal map settings for baking. I think I will stick to the voice demo tutorial style....and be putting up some new stuff for environment creation.

[ishiishun]

Hi there..I followed all the steps in this tutorial and it still did not work. I followed tutorials from other people and it did not work too! Is there a problem with the settings in my Maya? Are there any common things to take note of?

[ryuhayabusa13]

Thanks a lot For this video tutorial as always. Really essential stuff to learn. I always enjoy your tutorials. I had problems with reading some of the fonts as you mentioned,but on HD and Full screen we can read fine.

[iank240]

Interesting about the normals attributes. Something I learned a few weeks ago and is very useful to know when importing a mesh to a games engine.

[SebastianK94]

Good video, I'm sure a lot of people prefer this sort of tutorial, myself not so much; I've always been a voice-type person. But each to their own. :) Nice to see you back by the way.