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November 22, 2023
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Create Displacement/Height maps from Normal maps???

  • November 22, 2023
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Hello everyone, 

 

I looked online and seem not to find a answer to my question. Is it possible to make a displacement/Height map from your normal map on SP? Heres a example; you purchase a premade high rez basemesh that includes texture and normals but would like to use the high frequency details from the normals in zbrush but zbrush does not use normals maps. So now you need to convert the normals map into Height/displacement maps and how would you go about doing so in SP? I hope to hear from your soon and thank you in advance. 

Correct answer Cyril Dellenbach

Hello @MrSazo,

 

I'd personally use Substance 3D Designer and the node Normal to Height. If you rather use Substance Painter, here's a .SBSAR file that contains the Normal to Height node.

 

Best regards

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February 3, 2025
Cyril Dellenbach
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Cyril DellenbachCommunity ManagerCorrect answer
Community Manager
November 22, 2023

Hello @MrSazo,

 

I'd personally use Substance 3D Designer and the node Normal to Height. If you rather use Substance Painter, here's a .SBSAR file that contains the Normal to Height node.

 

Best regards

Cyril Dellenbach (Micro) | QA Support Artist | Adobe
Participant
January 27, 2024

and how to use it?

 

Cyril Dellenbach
Community Manager
Community Manager
January 29, 2024

You can drag & drop the shared resource directly in the layer stack.

 

Cyril Dellenbach (Micro) | QA Support Artist | Adobe