Reimporter in DDO doesn't have the id map take effect unless I hit the link button

illYay

I wasted quite a bit of time today wondering what's going on.

So when I use the reimporter button after moving things around a bit in my model and making an updated color id map, the color id's don't seem to actually take effect unless I hit the link button.

When I load the new color id map, I even see photoshop show me the new map, yet it takes no effect and rerenders my texture using the old id map. My normal map is all good though so I get corrupt looking stuff at first.

Zee'

+1, I'm experiencing the same issue

Eric Ramberg

Hi!

So let me just see if I get this straight, after you reimport a new color ID, it loads correctly (Hitting "C" in DDO displays it correctly), but the textures on your mesh don´t update?

If this is the problem, you could try going to your project map and delete the targa files from the "Preview" map, dont delete the JPEG thumbnails however because then all your mask previews will be black, which is not very nice! Let me know if this does the trick!

illYay

Well I see the new id show up in the view port of photoshop when I'm still in the maps view. I then hit rerender and wait a while.

Then I see my texture is all strange and I hit C and see in 3DO that my old color id map is still used. The normals, for example, are loaded in correctly though, so my resulting work is a jumble of random parts until I fix the color id map.

Eric Ramberg

Did you re-import the mesh as well? if you re-arranged things on your model then you need to re-import it otherwise there would problems.

Odins3d

I'm have this error as well. I've moved some uvs around so I changed the location of the colors on a new id map and moved the normals also. When I try to reimport the maps it works it shows the new location of the map.I'm making sure the correct map is begin used by hitting the "links" button and is shows the new map. However when I hit rerender it reverts my maps back to the old ones and doesnt show an update in the texture at all.

Moosebish

I also have this issue. The way I know its not going to take, is if I select my ID map to reimport, DDO opens it briefly AND keeps it open. When I reimport it will process everything and still use the old ID map.

To fix it, I select any other file (it will open it briefly then close it.) and then choose my updated ID map. To work around this, sometimes I save 2 versions of the ID map and flip flop between them whenever I update it.

Eric Ramberg

Odins3d - Is it 3DO who won´t update or is it the PSD file?

Moosebish - So this trick ususally works?

Odins3d

its the psd that wont update

Odins3d

Moose- do you keep the same name on the new file or rename it

Eric Ramberg

Odins3d - Try clicking the little x first so the map is completely gone, the try to add a file with a different name, does that do anything?

Odins3d

eric- Ive done that and it load the new map it just wont apply to the psd

Odins3d

Ive got it working however the new id broke alot of my layer mask

Eric Ramberg

What happened, how did it break the masks?

Odins3d

Some of my layers mask are solid white and my Id map is not showing the correct colors. When its adding the new id mask its assigning the same mask to multiple colors. The one ID map is the one I made the other one is the one ddo is recognizing.

Eric Ramberg

The color ID map seems to have some artifacts, making the suite think there are more color than there is, Anti alising should always be turned off when producing Color id maps, that might be what´s causing the wierd behaviour here. The color ID should only consist of solid colors.

Odins3d

Im not sure what artifacting your seeing on your end. The image I created was the IDnew.jpg the IDnewImport is the one I see in ddo

Eric Ramberg

The colors are not solid, as the edges have artifacts (might be caused by AA) that is most likely why the suite thinks there are more colors and creates those wierd looking "borders". Try creating a new color id without any antialising and save it out as a flattened PNG without transparency and see if that helps!