nDo. Created by Teddy Bergsman teddy.bergsman@gmail.com nDo now has an official site, head over to www.cgted.com to download it! Introducing a toolset for quickly designing normal maps without ever leaving Photoshop,nDo is a melting pot of normal creation techniques. Sculpt using your custom brushes, create volumes from selections, paths or layers, apply filters, generate complexly multifaceted normal maps from height or photographs, rotate and transform without biasing normal - nDo is designed to cover many of your normal mapping needs in a to-the-point format.
To download visit the official nDo site: nDo © teddy Play this action to launch nDo. Overlay Normal Blends the selected normal map layer with the layer(s) below, in a mathematically correct manner without destroying Z channel data. Cavity from Normal Generates a cavity map layer on top of the selected normal map layer. Learn to use this handy tool to create normal maps fast. 1. Creative Crash : High Quality 3D Models, Scripts, Plugins and More! : Uvlayout tutorial. After spending many hours uvmapping in Max I decided to look for some alternative applications that may provide some tools for speeding up the process, this is when I discovered UVLayout, at first glance the program looks quite dated by current standards, but after spending some time with the program it has some great features and I find myself using it for any complex unwrapping I need to do. The relax tools in Max have a habbit of collapsing verts and can require a lot of manual tweaking, uvlayout seems to keep these issues to a minimum, and the symmetry option is a great help, allowing you to instantly mirror uv changes over a specified symmetry line.
This tutorial covers the basic process that will allow anyone new to the program to get some quick results. Here is a quick reference list of the main controls you will want to be familiar with. Export mesh as an obj, in Max 2009 you can use the zbrush obj settings and this will be fine. To remove seams use the backspace key. TexTools. 3d-Plugin.