Height2Normal

A Source SDK tool program, situated in the SteamApps\username\souresdk\bin\ folder, previously used to convert a heightmap texture into a normal map texture. It stopped working years ago, generating no output file, but old versions of this program may still exist.

Proper execution of this program included:

• Creating a TGA with _height appended before the extension.
• Creating a TXT file with _normal appended before the extension, containing the following:

"bumpscale" "1.0"

Keep in mind:

• You could change the bumpscale if you didn't like the output you were getting.
• The TGA and TXT file should have the same name without their appended text and extension.

Height2normal should be executed with the TXT file name.

ex: height2normal "C:\a\b\c\tgafile_normal.txt"

The output created by running height2normal will be a targa (.tga) file.

See also

• Creating Materials