Ndo2: converting normal map to Specular problem (crash)

breakneck

Hey polycount folks,
I have this problem that nDo2 crashes every time I attempt to convert a normal map in to a specular map. I remember seeing this as a known issue some time back - and the way to fix it was to allocate more memory to photoshop and enable the largest available drive as a scratch disk.
Well, I have 17gigs of RAM(out of 32) dedicated to photoshop and at least 500gb on my harddrive availble to be a scratch disk - yet nDo is still crashing.
-I have the latest version of ndo2
-I'm running PS cs6 13.0

Anyone else have this problem or know how to fix it?
Thanks!

gsokol

When you convert, do you choose to convert to Active Doc? That opens up a new photoshop doc and does all the wizardry in there. I feel like NDO2 used to crash on me a lot before I started doing that.

breakneck

gsokol wrote: »

When you convert, do you choose to convert to Active Doc? That opens up a new photoshop doc and does all the wizardry in there. I feel like NDO2 used to crash on me a lot before I started doing that.

Yeah, I always convert using active doc. I tried converting from file and that crashes as well.

illo

I noticed that if I have any paths in my document it crashes NDo, which is a shame because I use a lot of paths/shapes to setup normal maps.

Axi5

This might be a silly suggestion, are you running ndo2 in administrator? If not try it, mine used to crash fairly often and I heard that can sometimes be the issue. Then again your PC sounds more powerful than mine, could just be that I've monitored my memory usage more carefully these days.

breakneck

Axi5, yep I have been running both ps and ndo in administrator mode. I swear, I've tried every little trick and setting configuration that I can think of.

breakneck

Holy shit, I managed to track this wild bug down (along with the help of several others at the studio). If you have the Open Documents as Tabs setting disabled in photoshop- it will cause the crash.
Greatest mystery in the world solved.

Eric Chadwick

You should let Quixel know about this. Teddy's been the coolest about responding to bug reports and such.
http://quixel.se/iframes/contact/

breakneck

Yeah, i've been in direct email contact w/ Teddy about this. Its nice being able to contact them so easily