DDS and upload it into the designated section on Sims 4 Studio. Almost done! Using the same method above, copy and paste your GREEN layer into the Red & Blue. PASTE it into the alpha layer (a good ol ctrl-v should work!) it should now look like this.ĥ. Select the RED channel using ‘ctrl-A’, the selection box will select everything, as shown below Copy your ‘Red’ Channel into your Alpha layer. **once you do this, the main window will show as black:Ĥ.

NOW you have to make the alpha layer in the channels window– focusing on the channels window, click the icon indicated below to create a new alpha layer. Make sure your CHANNELS window is open, and make sure you only have a single layer on the bump map this is when alpha layers come into play. Bump maps are usually grey, so we have to adjust it to be like that now. open your new (and blue) bump map onto photoshop. Go to Filter > 3D > Generate Bump Map.This will bring up the Generate Bump Map dialog box which gives you an interactive 3D preview, with controls on how to generate the grayscale image that will make up your Bump map.

You can adjust your settings to how u want, but i usually do this.Ĭlick the download at the bottom to save it out.ģ. Bump maps are really easy to create using Photoshop’s 3D filters. a bump map should be generated for you like this. png into the box where it says ‘click or drag and drop’. Here’s how it looks before the crop & after

**ALSO make sure the background behind your texture is WHITE. as for cropping, i start from all the way at the bottom and then drag the selection until it cant go further. i usually use a white swatch just in case, what ever makes the folds most prominent. dds plugin (needed for the alpha layer), which you can grab here + use these settings hereġ) open your texture & crop it into a 1:1 ratio (square).

photoshop or any 2d editor that can handle alpha layers.

I make my bump maps based on THIS tutorial here by MisterS on the sims 4 studio forums, but it’s a bit general and doesnt focus on the texture map of cc so i figured i would break it down.Īlso bump maps are great for adding some extra and light 3d-ness to your textures, it really prevents folds from looking flat! Using SDL and plain C, I called it 'hbm2tnm.Ridgeport: a really simple and really lazy bump map tutorial - for clothes but could work for hair too Or with a wrapping mode, produces what was shown in your comment:Īnd for good measure, here's the tool I wrote to generate those images. Sampling the heightmap with a clamping mode produces an output like such: You can generate each the normal map, pixel by pixel, by computing the respective the X and Y gradients from the height map using a Sobel operator.

Bump map creator