PS Actions Question

leechdemon

I'm a big fan of PS actions, but my biggest limitation seems to come up when I want to create an action that is size-specific.

For example, when I'm creating normal maps for junk textures in the nVidia plugin, I increase the canvas size 300%, tile the image, do my normal map magic, then crop it afterwards. I've found that my maps don't tile correctly if I don't do this, and the "Wrap" option hasn't helped me much (I think. Does this work for other people?).

Is there a way to use some sort of variable in my Actions? Like, in the Normal Map case I'd be increasing the size 300%, but it always records this increase in pixels, so if my initial action is 256x256->768x768, when I run the action again at 1024x1024 it'll again scale it to 768x768. Any way around this?

Stromberg90

When you create the action change from pixels to Percent using the down arrow.
Hope you understand what i mean, i'm not the best at explaining

leechdemon

I tried this using the down arrow to select Percent (instead of the drop down and clicking, I assume is what you mean?) and it worked. I tried it using the drop down as well, and... it still worked. WTH. I'm guessing this is something that they must've fixed in a previous version or something? Odd.

Thanks!