This would be really nice to have working better in Blender. I remember running into this exact issue a while back and having to bring all my normalmaps into photoshop to dilate them using the xnormal dilation plugin. A headache I'd love to avoid in the future.
-Sean On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Morten Mikkelsen <mikkels...@gmail.com>wrote: > The dilation I am seeing in Blender is imo not good. I thought I'd propose > an alternative (if there's support)? > > > Here's a close-up of the dilation blender does --> > http://jbit.net/~sparky/blender_dial/bakezoom_BI_dial.png > Here's a close-up of the dilation I was able to do outside of blender using > diff. code --> > http://jbit.net/~sparky/blender_dial/bakezoom_other_dial.png > > The bumped visual you get using the first one is this (ugly filtering scar) > --> http://jbit.net/~sparky/blender_dial/scr_BI_dial.png > The visual you get using the other method is this (significantly more > subtle) --> http://jbit.net/~sparky/blender_dial/scr_other_dial.png > > The blend file to produce the texture is up there --> > http://jbit.net/~sparky/blender_dial/bmake.blend > > This is the full-res baked result you get with dilation using blender --> > http://jbit.net/~sparky/blender_dial/bake_BI.png > and this is using the alternative dilation --> > http://jbit.net/~sparky/blender_dial/bake_other_dial.png > > I dumped everything here http://jbit.net/~sparky/blender_dial/ incl. a > blender file. > > > > Let me know what you think. > Cheers, > > Morten. > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > -- ||------------------ Instant Messengers ---------------------- || ICQ at 11133295 || AIM at shatterstar98 || MSN Messenger at shatte...@hotmail.com || Yahoo Y! at the_7th_samuri ||---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers