Easy Channel Packing Tool

MatheusDalla

Hi guys, i always wanted a simple tool for channel packing and extraction. So i made this one, and i'm sharing it for free.

https://gumroad.com/l/EasyChannelPacking

It's really simple, one of my goals is that with it can explain the concept of channel packing easier for the artists, and make them able to do it.


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You can also use it to rearrange the channels of a texture.

victorullmann

Awesome tool man! It will help me a lot. Thanks

stilobique

Great. It's make with PyQT ?

melviso

Excellent software. Thanks a ton.

MatheusDalla

stilobique said:

Great. It's make with PyQT ?

Visual studio, c#, windows forms

Soon i will update it, we make it run a lot faster now.

frmdbl

That's pretty cool given that I haven't found an app other than Photoshop (and I tried Krita, Affinity and possibly others) that would just enable me to properly make channel packed textures.

I normally use SD though.

VesaN

Nice, will definitely try this out! Thanks for your work!

wonkza

frmdbl said:

That's pretty cool given that I haven't found an app other than Photoshop (and I tried Krita, Affinity and possibly others) that would just enable me to properly make channel packed textures.

I normally use SD though.

You can pack them directly in SD 

MatheusDalla

Gosh, took me a while to understand that SD is Substance Designer, I'm really slow today.
Yeah you can. But sometimes I'm using a computer without it..

SnowInChina

nice

HatPoweredSpyCrab

Nice!! I've been looking for a tool like this for quite some time. I remember doing it rather manually in Unity.
Any idea as to why Windows Defender is detecting it as a virus?

MatheusDalla

HatPoweredSpyCrab said:

Nice!! I've been looking for a tool like this for quite some time. I remember doing it rather manually in Unity.
Any idea as to why Windows Defender is detecting it as a virus?

I happy to hear that. I got no clue, i'm really newbie in develop windows applications... But maybe because i didnt add any info about the software or to the help menu, will try that later.
We made drag'n drop working now!

MatheusDalla

Hi guys, i just updated the tool on gumroad.
https://gum.co/EasyChannelPacking
Now it has Drag'n drop, inverted option, more responsive UI and much improved performance. 4k images are taking about one third of the time.
also now available on artstation
https://www.artstation.com/a/3533293

melviso

Thanks a lot for the update. Any chance we could pls save out final channel packed  image as 32 bit tga? UE4 has issues with png and maps loaded in alpha channel.

MatheusDalla

melviso said:

Thanks a lot for the update. Any chance we could pls save out final channel packed  image as 32 bit tga? UE4 has issues with png and maps loaded in alpha channel.

I think tga is a little tricky, but i will take a look.

melviso

@MatheusDalla Thank you.