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More projects using xNormal
General overview tutorial

This introductory tutorial shows the general aspects of xNormal. Click in the image to start the download.

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Ray distance measurement method 1: 3DSMAX tapes

This tutorial shows how to measure the ray distance using Autodesk's 3DSMax and a tape helper.

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Ray distance measurement method 2A: xNormal built-in cage editor

This tutorial shows how to measure the ray distance using cages and how to set/edit them using the xNormal's cage built-in editor.

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Ray distance measurement method 2B: External cages

This tutorial shows how to export and use inside xNormal cages exported through external mesh files ( .OBJ, .LWO, .3DS, etc... )

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Ray distance measurement method 3: 3DSMAX 9 .SBM exporter

This tutorial shows how to export and use inside xNormal cages exported from 3DSMAX 9 using the xNormal's SBM mesh exporter.

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ZBrush 3 displacement map conversion to a normal map using xNormal

Stanislav Karpunin did a tutorial about how to create high-quality normal map using a ZBrush 3 displacement map and xNormal.

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How to use the Simple GPU AO tool to accelerate the occlusion map rendering

A tutorial about how to use the Simple GPU AO tool render to vertex colors feature to accelerate the highpoly-lowpoly occlusion projection speed a lot.

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Visualization of xNormal normal maps in Maya's realtime viewport

A video tutorial ( without audio ) about how to visualize correctly the normal maps created from xNormal in the Maya's realtime viewport.

Thanks to Phila Chilkix for creating it.

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Ambient occlusion and cavity map tutorial
Donald Phan has made an excellent tutorial about ambient occlusion and cavity using xNormal.

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Generating a normal map in xNormal from a ZBrush model
Anton Kozlov made a good video tutorial about generating normal maps with xNormal using an object exported from ZBrush.

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