In your opinion what is the best normal map generator?

[capitan_popo]

Well its been a while since I have posted anything on the forums so I thought I would start a discussion on your opinion on normal map generation and which package or program you use and why you prefer that over others. I have been using max to generate as they seem to come out good out of there...I know zbrushs normal maps always give me problems and dont really seem to work as I want them too, I was looking at topogun as well but wanted to hear what you guys had to say on the matter.

[Crispy4004]

You can't go wrong with X-normal if you adjust the values properly.

Topogun is suppose to be pretty good and apparently does comparable ambient occlusion maps too, but it also is a bit limited by the poly count.

[Perversonality]

I use a combination of Max, XNormal and manual editing to get the results that I want