UE4 automatically and permanently converted my height map to normal map. How can I do this manually?

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@RyanB;419027

Interesting, I am not aware of any tools of functions that convert heightmaps into normal maps. Are you sure it actually made a normal map and didn’t just set the compression type to normal map?

So UE4 doesn’t do any type of converting of height map to normal map? Hmmm. Okay, that helps a lot. So it’s not really a normal map, but it just looks like one for some reason.

The FBX I imported in has no normal map, just a height map aka bump map for the body & head (one for head, another one for body). Somehow the bump/height map turned into a normal map and ended up in the normalmap node of the material.