IMPORTANT: During the normal map segment, desaturate your texture before turning it into a normal map for best results; it needs to run off of a greyscale!
Thank you for watching this tutorial on texture mapping! Stay tuned for the final and most exciting part of the series; getting our custom sword into the world of Skyrim through NifSkope and the Skyrim Creation Kit!
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GIMP 2 Normal Map plugin:
http://registry.gimp.org/node/69
GIMP 2 dds plugin:
http://registry.gimp.org/node/70
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