Making a normal map for the fabric

I've put the fabric texture on my chair and I'm ready to get some other things on.…It looks a little flat, so I'm going to build a normal map for it based on that…fabric, so that as part of my atlas, I've got a normal and a diffuse.…These can either be two separate images or actually depending on how it's…mapped, you can use the same one.…It's very common in an atlas to have some of it be the color, some of it…be the specularity and some of it be a normal all within one image…that simply gets reloaded and used over and over and over in the game engine.…

I'm going to build up a separate normal texture, so I have one for diffuse…and one for normal.…To make this look a little better and be able to tell what I'm doing, I'm going…to get a little different lighting going on in my scene.…I'll choose Create and under Standard lights, Omni.…I use Omni as a lot as just point lights to show off specularity or normals in a game.…That way I've got a quick test going on here in 3ds Max.…We could get more exotic, but really, I just care that it's working.…