brb just gonna paint a normal map real quick

this worked out WAY better than I thought ahah

part of my lil experiment with color (normal) picker domes

stop liking this tweet, it's encouraging me!! this is the kind of dumb idea that might make me start making a proper normal map painting tool lol I even have a base to start from bc I made this thing a while back 💀

i wrote some code to try and force the computer to make sense of my normals to create a height map, and, it kinda works??

this is actually more or less how i made most of the normal maps for SIGNALIS.

Reminds me of this absolute banger of a tweet thread from 2021:

heck yea nice

Next step is to generate the mesh based on the normal map you draw?

good lord I hope not lol bc these normals are probably far from sensical

This is so awesome holy shit