Suite focus and cross-app issues
According to the wiki page, I'm doing this correctly, not that there's that much I can do to botch this up. But when I go into cross-app, nothing happens in Toolbag 2.
What's more, is if Hide Photoshop is ticked, I don't get the Photoshop window back either by un-checking Cross-app mode, or by closing Toolbag, though the PS process is still running. If I've kept Hide Photoshop unticked, entered then exited Cross-app with Toolbag, then close Toolbag, Quixel no longer has top focus within Photoshop. As I type this post in this state, any time I mouse over Photoshop, it becomes the active window.
I'm running Win7, Photoshop CS6, Quixel Suite 1.3, all 64 bit and running as admin. Java and .net are up to date.
I suspect there's still something wrong with my installation somewhere, though I've reinstalled several times now, testing within the default c:\users\... or my own c:\apps\... folder. I still have the issue where the suite doesn't have focus/docking inside photoshop, it launches behind windows and has no taskbar icon - I need to minimize everything to see it.
To work as expected, I need to launch Photoshop, launch suite, close suite, launch suite.
What's more, is if Hide Photoshop is ticked, I don't get the Photoshop window back either by un-checking Cross-app mode, or by closing Toolbag, though the PS process is still running. If I've kept Hide Photoshop unticked, entered then exited Cross-app with Toolbag, then close Toolbag, Quixel no longer has top focus within Photoshop. As I type this post in this state, any time I mouse over Photoshop, it becomes the active window.
I'm running Win7, Photoshop CS6, Quixel Suite 1.3, all 64 bit and running as admin. Java and .net are up to date.
I suspect there's still something wrong with my installation somewhere, though I've reinstalled several times now, testing within the default c:\users\... or my own c:\apps\... folder. I still have the issue where the suite doesn't have focus/docking inside photoshop, it launches behind windows and has no taskbar icon - I need to minimize everything to see it.
To work as expected, I need to launch Photoshop, launch suite, close suite, launch suite.
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Have you loaded the .tbmat file that ddo generates in to toolbag? Can you see your textures at all in toolbag?
The photosop dissapearing act is a bug that is fixed in 1.4 that will be released soon!
I did end up loading the tbmat and obj into toolbag by hand, the tbmat was created properly.
Another issue: "Copy Mask to all Maps" didn't work, or didn't work consistently. After hand-painting out some masks in the Albedo, I ran this from the dropdown, and it worked once or twice at first. After more painting, I could see the documents and layers in the other maps being visited, but nothing was copied across.
Quick Edit: I just noticed that when mousing over the main Suite toolbar (but not DDO), window focus goes to Photoshop without clicking on anything. Suite/dDo are not visible in PS, since they're docked in TB2.
Edit 2: It's when mousing over then away from the dDo window that focus shifts. The main Suite bar isn't the issue.
I wasn't sure if you wanted to see it working properly, here's a TB2 snapshot after manually dropping in the obj and tbmat.
@Shanteez - A lot more cross app info is coming soon!
Also, how do I get photoshop back after I hide it with cross app?
But the issue with window focus once cross-app is enabled is still a problem.
The photoshop dissapearing act is a bug that we're aware of and trying to eliminate!
@throttle kitty - sorry, maybe in the future we can have that functionality!
Yes the window focus is a really annoying bug and Teddy is looking in to that!
I followed that guide a few times, but it still didn't seem to be working.
Edit - Seems I had to reset the export location.