PixPlant

[philnolan3d]

I've talked about Crazy Bump here before but believe it or not I've found something better. Pixplant does the same thing as Crazy Bump, creates normal, spec, & depth textures from a Photo. I've seen other programs that do this but none matched CB's quality. Pixplant matches the quality if not better, plus it has a nicer interface, plus as a pleasant surprise it also makes the texture seamless. There're also a few more features like straightening or correcting perspective on and image. The best part it's a lot cheaper than CB. This is fantastic for making Materials to paint with in 3DC.

http://www.pixplant.com/

[3d_sculptress]

I've talked about Crazy Bump here before but believe it or not I've found something better. Pixplant does the same thing as Crazy Bump, creates normal, spec, & depth textures from a Photo. I've seen other programs that do this but none matched CB's quality. Pixplant matches the quality if not better, plus it has a nicer interface, plus as a pleasant surprise it also makes the texture seamless. There're also a few more features like straightening or correcting perspective on and image. The best part it's a lot cheaper than CB. This is fantastic for making Materials to paint with in 3DC.

http://www.pixplant.com/

perfect timing on this post, Phil..I had just ran across a link for CB yesterday n was planning on going back n checking it out more thoroughly today,..,,I have TextureMaker already, and it has oodles of great texture options, but always open for exploring more possibilities, so thanks for posting.

[Javis]

Wow, that looks amazingly powerful, and quick. For this type of work I think it would be invaluable. The price is a little steep, but the time saved I suppose one could justify it.

The question is: Stand alone or the PS plugin version?

[philnolan3d]

I'm using the Stand-Alone version, I have a feeling it would have more options than the PS one. It's a little pricey but consider than CB does less and costs $300.

Edit: Here I made these textures based on the attached image.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3083393/grate_01_material.zip

You can thank Dave Davidson (@max3ddotorg on Twitter) for telling me about it.

[Javis]

That's pretty cool. I'm going to have to pick up a copy of this soon.

Thanks for the heads up!

[philnolan3d]

I was actually just using it again last night and I was blown away again.

This is what I got from loading a photo of some wood planks.

[3DArtist]

Nice, that turned out pretty good. Can you bring in existing diffuse, displacement, normal, spec maps and create a tiled version?

PhotoSculpt and PixPlant could be a killer combo.

[philnolan3d]

I'm looking through the help file and I don't see any way of doing that, maybe I'm just not seeing it.

[wailingmonkey]

3DArtist,

from the 'support' section: http://www.pixplant.com/video/screencast4-600/

(shows how to set up the repeating 'seed'...reckon you could allow for much

greater variety than that example, tho, with a bigger selection set)

[3DArtist]

Thanks guys. I downloaded the demo and I don't see the option of doing anything non-tiled or using existing maps.

It works pretty good for what it does though.

[philnolan3d]

Well if you want no tiling just change this to "None".

[3DArtist]

Sorry, I meant non-seed-generated.

[philnolan3d]

I actually did it on the wood that I used in 3DC, however I couldn't get it to work again when I made the example above. I think all I did was hold Shift when clicking the generate button (which changes to "Generate with current seed only").