I'm working on a cube map shuffler, plus RGBM encoder. I call it SixSides. Still screwing around with the UI, and reading up on equirectangular(panorama) to cubic projection, and vise-versa. Using SFML right now plus VC++. Might switch over to Qt, so it's easier to port to OS X. I suck so bad at UI layout though xD

Been working on a little Script for converting your polygon selections in Maya to marquee selections in Photoshop, so far it is very wip, and a little slow on large amounts of selected polys, but the idea is there and it works.

want to work next on optimization and on a mode for converting edges selections in Maya to paths in Photoshop.

psLinkAlpha1 - YouTube

Very nice, looking forward for this, it seems really promising !

@Froyok got to work on a few bugs, and figure out a method for dealing with out of 0 to 1 uv's than i will release it. even know it is still very slow atm for large selections

That's pretty damn cool. Interesting idea.

Can I ask what you'll do with it? I can imagine converting edgeloops from a mesh to a path would be cool for stroking details into the texture.. something like that?

Originally Posted by cptSwing

Can I ask what you'll do with it? I can imagine converting edgeloops from a mesh to a path would be cool for stroking details into the texture.. something like that?

This.

Looking really great. It seems the harder i look, the more reason i find to like maya Looking forward to trying this out.

Ah, I'm sure Mr. Lichy is racking his brain on how to do this in Max already... ;)

What would be awesome is if you could make a polygon selection in the high poly and have it transfer over to the baked low poly mesh. Perhaps using some kind of baked UV matching map?

i guess the hipoly stuff could be done by comparing world space positions of underlying vertices and then grabbing the uv coordinates related to that.

awesome idea for a script passerby!

Very cool stuff. Simple and effective

thanks guys still far from done, once i got a better method for getting the selections needed i am planning on have both a mode that works like the video, and one that works on edge selections and creates paths in photoshop.

ya a highpoly like feature for this would be cool, but it seems like a very large task to do, and the current method already is slow for large amounts of polygons.

will make a dedicated thread once i get a major update up, since what you see in the video is very bleeding edge.

Anyone else got ideas for integration between PS and 3d packages.

Can't say how much use it would be, But maybe using soft selections to make gradients in PS? Could be useful for receding geometry that you want to add some addition AO to, or maybe soft select all the verts towards the bottom of a model and create a gradient from that. Instead of going around shell by shell making non uniform gradients.

just a thought You got something cool for faces, something cool for edges, Might figure something else for vert selection.

The only way it could get any better is if you made it for Max

Originally Posted by s620ex1

Can't say how much use it would be, But maybe using soft selections to make gradients in PS?

You can do this in Max already. A few hoops, but probably scriptable.
Vertex Paint modifier has a soft selection button. Use that with vertex sub-object selection to flood-fill the gradients on your model. To bake it, put a material on your model with a Vertex Color map in the diffuse, then use Render To Texture. Viola!

Originally Posted by passerby

Been working on a little Script for converting your polygon selections in Maya to marquee selections in Photoshop

Love the video, cool idea. What's the music from?

Grant Adam did a similar Maxscript that exports UVs as a path to Photoshop. The script is encrypted, but he's a cool dude, he'd probably share some info about it if you shot him an email.
PSDPathUnwrapper

Music's Bastion isn't it? Darren Korb?

What's the script do? Copy UV positions to a macro or something?

made a small update tonight, now it supports UV's that are offset outside the 0 to 1 space.

psLinkAlpha1.01 - YouTube

music on both videos is by Darren Korb, and is from the bastion soundtrack.

I'm trying to find this script for max. I think it's called setPivot.
Its icon is a little pink pin, and you use it to set the pivot (doh) to selected verts or edges or if anything is selected then it sets the pivot to the center of the object. Can't seem to find the script

Originally Posted by Pedro Amorim

I'm trying to find this script for max. I think it's called setPivot.
Its icon is a little pink pin, and you use it to set the pivot (doh) to selected verts or edges or if anything is selected then it sets the pivot to the center of the object. Can't seem to find the script

FunkyBunnies had something like that on his site. (funkybunnies3d.com)