SSbump Generator 5.1 w/ CUDA

A new free CUDA-accelerated bumpmap generator is on the scene called “SSBump”.  Runs on Windows XP & Vista, and generates some pretty impressive results.

SSbump generator is a free GUI based program. The purpose of this program is to generate Self-Shadowed Bump Maps for VALVe’s Source game engine. The program can generate normal maps, non-shadowed ssbump maps, or embed directional ambient occlusion into the image.

via SSbump Generator 5.1 w/ CUDA.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .