SOLVED: Preview Normals

furys-death

This may or may not have been answered before I am not sure because I have only recently come across this problem.

I open a diffuse texture and create a photo normal using a pre-set. The starting diffuse is in black and white and I adjust some of the parameters. I try and preview it inside of 3Do and..... nothing?

Tried force-refreshing 3do from the Ndo box and nothing is happening in the 3DO previewer. Any ideas please?

Thanks

furys-death

Any ideas? Needed for university project.

Synaesthesia

This might be of assistance.

Eric Ramberg

furys-death - Is it after it has been converted that you cannot see the normal in 3DO?

furys-death

Thanks Synaesthesia, I've had that working before but I tried just following a Quixel tutorial and wasn't able to replicate it without using custom meshes. I just want to preview the normal, I don't mind as to what it appears on.

Eric Ramberg - All I do is take a grey-scale image, apply a photo normal pre-set and load 3DO. It loads the default 3do and force refresh doesn't do anything.

Thanks.

furys-death

This may help in aiding my explanation. Texture > Pre-set > 3do > refresh.

http://postimg.org/image/qnl2f4mx5/

furys-death

Tried reinstalling the whole suit to no prevail

Eric Ramberg

Thank you for the image it helped! I think this might be due to an unsupported character in the path for the project. This is usually what will happen when that occurs. Are there possibly any non-alphanumerical characters in the path where the project is saved?

furys-death

The main texture is called "D_pathway_01" for referencing the diffuse and where it will be used within my game. Would this be what is causing the problem? The underscore?

furys-death

No such luck in changing it.

http://postimg.org/image/4mf0yc6jj/

Eric Ramberg

I meant where the project is located, if you for instance place it in your document folder the path might be: C ALŽBĚTA / 3d-projects /
then it would not work. (ALŽBĚTA is a chez name I just googled as an example)
But if you would put your project at: C : / 3d-projects /
Then it would work!

furys-death

Ah, my apologies I didn't quite understand what you meant. I've tried that and I really don't think this software likes me xD
http://postimg.org/image/ysae7f3tv/

Sorry for inconvenience.

Eric Ramberg

What language is your Photoshop? No inconvenience, the software should of course work as intended!

furys-death

Sorry for the slow reply.

It is the standard English version, however it now seems to be working correctly. After reading your comment about the language of Photoshop itself I decided to do a clean install of both software, Photoshop and the Quixel suit and the problem has dissappeared.

I wish I could say more of what I done to help further problems with others but it was just a reinstall. Thank you for your comments and help though, much appreciated.

~ Fury

Eric Ramberg

HI!

Thanks for reporting back! Might have been that PS was installed in another language but was set to english in the UI. Anyway, thanks for letting us know and good thing it got sorted!