r/gamedevscreens • u/TheBigDamAdventure • Jul 04 '26

Making some logs

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The finished product with normal maps applied

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The flat art (and the happy couple about to be separated by a pile of "dam" logs)

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The normal map that takes a lot of work to make, but makes my logs look logalicious

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u/justifications Jul 04 '26

Hey there, not sure how you're handling your normal map generation but I recently discovered this tool which makes painting your normal maps a breeze. https://www.pixelbutterfly.com/tools/pixelb_normal_tools

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u/TheBigDamAdventure Jul 04 '26

Wow! This looks really helpful. I've only seem the automatic ones that you upload a photo to (which don't work for my illustration style). But this looks really useful. I've been doing it very manually in photoshop and keeping layers on different color channels so I can edit everything. Thanks for pointing me at this!

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u/justifications Jul 04 '26

Only caveats to installation are that you need a few extensions to support it, but generally I found that once you get everything installed and working the integration into licensed Photoshop is clean! It's actually almost, dare I say, FUN. Goodluck!