Enzo - 3d paint for PS
polycounter lvl 18
http://www.electriciris.com/
Not sure how good it is...just grabbed the link from the XSI mailing list.
30 day demo.
Not sure how good it is...just grabbed the link from the XSI mailing list.
30 day demo.
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Hopefully it's useable and good
Plus, when I use "Open Textures", it doesn't open them in a new window, it just resizes the main window and doesn't update it correctly. I'm gonna try some other texture formats and maybe a different PC to see if it's a problem with the video card or something.
I think I'll stick with Mayas 3D paint tool for now, but thanks for the heads up Gwot.
Seems like it might be useful for quick little projects or fun doodling on other people's SDKs, certainly given the amount of bugginess I get on my work PC it doesn't justify a $300 price tag. I'm gonna try it at home here now and see if I get better results.
I actually managed to get it painting and applying the texture correctly to the object, but it only lasted about 5 minutes then went back into buggy weird painting mode.
Also sometimes if you hit the wrong key it decides to overdraw your 3d model with an old position of it, which is very confusing since the "Color" mode is fullbright and has no shading, so you can't really see where you're painting.
I'm gonna mess around with it a little more before giving up hope, I think it'd be really good if it actually functioned the way the authors seem to have intended it to ... maybe they only tested it on one PC or something
I'm now getting out of RAM error messages in photoshop, and worse still, I can no longer drag an image from Perforce into Photoshop. Uninstalling!
Alex
However, half the time it just won't accept the painting, or if it does it only seems to apply it to the very edges of the UVs rather than the whole face.
That said, after I looked at the forums, it seems like it's just one guy developing it, and he only seems to have tested it for an Nvidia GF 6800. I have a 7800 at work and it seems to be almost working, while my ATI card at home won't even paint on the model (then again it is a 9800, quite old).
I just discovered that PS wouldn't open TGAs here now though, it gave a "Not enough RAM" warning even though i've got a ton spare, so I uninstalled Enzo and it seems to work fine now.
Really disappointed that it's so buggy, it really seems like it would be good if it worked the way it's supposed to.
this was posted in cgtalk by the maker of the tool.
Seems any other combination of software and hardware will result in crashes and unusable results.
Didn't work at all at home in CS2 and an ATI Radeon9800 Pro, but that's oooold and I wasn't expecting it to work anyway
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/photoshopextended/features/
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And I'm testing this thing today.
Been into it since a few days now, their forum is rather active and the authors seem likely to add requested features. If it came out earlier I think it could have been an industry standard - now that the focus shifts to highpoly sculpting I guess it's a different story. But still, super useful!
Some tests :
Yay!
At home on my 7900 GS, it worked very well on some models (bobo's demon SDK was my test, it was good), but did the same weird stretching/broken painting on other models. Couldn't figure out what was causing that.
Also the fact that you have to "switch modes" between 3d viewing and painting is a bit annoying, same with having to press a button to "commit" your painting work. It'd be perfect if it worked in PS the same way that something like Bodypaint does, ie. realtime painting. I guess that's beyond a plugin's scope for PS though.
At the moment it has a workflow similar to ZApplink except you can view the model in PS instead of ZB :P
I still think it's a good idea, but it just needs the bugs ironing out and a more consistent way of working before it would get a big market or audience. Plus its current price seems a bit high for what you get. I'd pay that much if it was actually stable and consistent, but it doesn't seem to be, so it feels a bit premature to me. I'd go with Bodypaint or ZBrush over this any day.
But yeah the bugs are definately an issue, I don't even understands that the guy sells it in this state haha :P
Alex
Perhaps its geared more for the maya obj/fbx exporter.
if you paint near edges, it bleeds and stretches like zapplink.
Be nice if it had 'local' rotations like in zbrush.
I guess the Enzo author should just come here and get constructive feedback just like Jogshy did.
In fact last nite it seemed to work almost perfect.
if there was a few modifications, i think i would posibly purchase this. i want layers to work better, and layer effects and layer propertys to work..
Does the brush size change when you paint across a seam between different UV pixel sizes? That's so old school.
For me the app shows promise but it's way too slow, takes a loooong time to lay down the paint before I can rotate the mesh. Maybe a setting somewhere?
The only things Body Paint 3D is lacking so far are the Layer Effects, and I don't use them on models, so BP3D is still the best, for me. It even saves PSD files. More expensive than Enzo, $895 vs. $299, but well worth it.
Hello everyone,
Many thanks to everyone for trying out Enzo and providing feedback, suggestions, and criticisms....*Especially* those who did so on our forums on http://www.enzo3d.com . We don't usually monitor all the 3D message boards and provide responses -- We're too busy working on Enzo and providing support to people on our own forum
Even though Enzo is currently being used in production by large companies, it is still very much a "living" piece of software, under constant development and improvement on a daily basis. Some of you may remember version 1.0, and realize the drastic improvements that have been made since then - and the progress continues at the same non-stop pace. We will continue until all bugs, issues, workflow improvements, etc etc have been addressed.
Just wanted to mention that all the issues brought up in this forum are known issues, and are high on the development schedule. We are currently working on the port to Photoshop CS3, and when that is complete, we will be going through every known issue with a fine-toothed comb.
Cheers,
The Enzo Team