Height2Normal

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Height2Normal Height2Normal is a command-line tool situated in <gameexedir>\bin\height2normal.exe, used to convert a heightmap texture into a normal map texture.


Proper execution of this program entails:

  • Creating a targa (.tga) image with _height appended before the extension.
  • Creating a text (.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 targa (.tga) image and text (.txt) file should have the same name without their appended text and extension.


Height2normal should be executed with the text file name.

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


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

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