Exporting UVs as Photoshop paths from Max

vcool

I remember there was a thread about this here, or maybe it was a post, but I simply can't find it. I went as far as searching for "photoshop" in Technical Talk and looked through all the 12 pages of results but still haven't found it.

Perhaps a kind soul has a link to this tutorial?

Thanks.

renderhjs

perhaps this?
http://joshuawinn.com/psdpathunwrapper.html


should give it a try sometime soon as well. Maybe even contact the author for some integration or use in TexTools.


edit: the original author site is:
http://www.rpmanager.com/freeTools.htm#pathunwrapper
its somewhere hidden in the clutter

Mark Dygert

I export using the 3dsmax renderUV template with specific colors. Then I have a simple photoshop action I recorded that selects by those colors and makes layers, folders and generally sets up my texture files the way I like. I have it look for the line and edge color, as well as break off the UV islands to their own layer.

I bound that action to F12, so I render the template to TGA, open it in Photoshop, hit F12 and away I go.

It helps to save the template as a tga to prevent compression and AA from making a mess.

renderhjs

Vig:
this might be an interesting take on automating PS stuff from within 3dsmax so with a little testing it might be able to call all that from within max alone on any naked PS copy.

Automating Photoshop with a DotNet Class Library and COM interop
http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/tutorials/automating-photoshop-with-a-dotnet-class-library-and-com-interop

Mark Dygert

OoOOoo awesome...

renderhjs

interesting part:

Just managed to get a handle on programming the Action Descriptor using VB. This is reasonably straight forward, you can use the Adobe Scripting Listener to record the actions. It’s amost the same as VB, as it is VBscript. This has basically allowed me to now integrate pretty much any action or command into the assembly. You could make a highly complex series of commands and wrap it into a fuction and call it straight from 3dsMax. Take a look at the new methods – there are many not exposed by the Adobe Object Library.

dang I really want to play with this

Mark Dygert

oooOooo bummer...

Looks like Adobe's "we allow you to script a lot of stuff (just not what you want to do, that would be useful lol2u!)"