QuickMap - Generate high quality diffuse/normal/height maps in seconds [RELEASED]

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Hi there,

QuickMap is a Unity extension that allows you to drop any photo or image, personalize your settings, and obtain high quality diffuse/normal/height maps in no time. At 25$, it is the most affordable commercial normal map generator and is completely integrated with Unity’s pipeline.

Here is an example workflow:

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Here are the current settings for each render map:

  • Diffuse: Brightness, Saturation, Contrast, Invert, Equalize
  • Normal: Resolution, Strength, Blur, Invert, Equalize
  • Height: Amplitude, Invert, Equalize

Read the full documentation.

Here is a “before/after” comparison using QuickMap to create a normal mapped material. Don’t hesitate if you have any requests/comments!

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can we see some screens of the materials generated on primitives? Generated normals always seem to look nice as a flat but create some wonky depth in weird places in the actual material.

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Examples with diffuse, normal and parallax maps:

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No interest for this package? Any suggestions for features?

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Firstly, the parallax wood example looks terrible. No offence, but that material is just plain unusable. The normal mapped version isn’t much better; it’s way, way too crunchy. The way to solve that is to use non-linear bump/normal/height map generation; use a user-controllable function that allows them to bias between evenly-distributed crunchy bumps (0-255), smooth bumps (around the 100-150 range) + larger, crunchier bumps (0-100, 150-255 range). That wood for instance, I don’t want the crunchyness that’s there being generaed by the mid-tones, but I certainly want those holes and the gaps to be massively there in the result.

Also look at perhaps blurring the height map. What you’ve got is this:
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…|___|

which works horribly. What you want is this:
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…_/

(ignore the dots)

Even if I lose a bit of the accuracy, it more than makes up for it by parallax mapping 1000% better.

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Thank you for your constructive comment. I didn’t realize the render maps were unusable, so I will change the price to free. Those who bought the package can contact me for a complete refund.

Thanks all.

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And by the way, I will implement each modification Jesus mentioned and the price will still be 0$.

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It’s still listed at $25?

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Ya there were some complications. Here’s a link to the package: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9289442/QuickMap.zip

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Sadly, it doesn’t work with Unity 4. Whenever i apply a texture, it doesn’t do anything at all in the window. The texture output when i try to make a normal map is just plain light blue… :confused:

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Hi
How do you install? I’ve downloaded the files but don’t know what to do with them. Despite the harsh (IMO) criticism above I think this is a useful tool for beginners like me. Admittedly I wouldn’t pay $25 for it but that’s not because I think it’s poor, more to so with the fact I’m a novice and am still experimenting. I think a tenner ($10) would be a better price especially if the normal map generator works.

ta

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hey man , i import quick map to my project after 5-6 times i used it , and save project and close the unity , next time i open it to continue my work , there is some texture attached to the QUICK MAP and it does not work at all ! i try to remove it and re-import it again but the problem does not solved !!!

please help me man !
i really want to use it

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Unfortunately, quickmap is not supported anymore, and that’s why it’s free. I couldn’t reproduce your problem, but I’ll try to find some time eventually. Also, I’m working on a much, much better product for normal/ao/spec maps generation.

Thanks for your comprehension.