Good tricks or PS plugins for edge dilation?

CheeseOnToast

Maya seems to have developed a new annoying little quirk so that when I bake a diffuse texture from high to low with surface sampler (Maya 7), it ignores my settings for padding the UVs. Because of this, the mipmaps are showing some nasty seams on my models.

Anyone know of a good plugin for CS2 that'll do the trick? I've tried the usual duplicate layers and blur, but it's not quite doing the job. I've tried the plugin that comes with Xnormal, but it gives me very weird results...maybe I'm just not using it right though.

EarthQuake

Xnormal comes with a photoshop plugin for this! Its fucking awesome. Just dl the latest xnormal and it should install itself.

All you need to do is this: Create a mask and place it in your alpha channel, then select all chanels(RGBA) and run the plugin.

jogshy

Just uploaded the 3.12.0 RC1.
Contains the fixed dilation filter for Photoshop. Don't need an alpha channel like the previous version.. just a transparent background or alpha mask.
Some bugs were fixed too.

StrangeFate

Only SuperLopez could come up with something like this!

CheeseOnToast

Nice one Jogshy, that did the trick

Sage

The xnormal plugins you added for photoshop are great man, thanks.

Alex

Eric Chadwick

I personally love the Solidify method, it just looks more pleasing to my eye than long stretched out pixels. Either way though, they all blur to hell when made into mips so any method that fills in all the gutters works fine.

moar
http://wiki.polycount.com/EdgePadding

cw

also - make the xnormal dilation into an action which runs 2 or 3 times at 32 pixels - it saves the lag of the preview loading up, and gives you a wider pad much faster. Bung it on a hotkey.