Oh, I just realized that the nvidia plugins don't work for photoshop cs4 64bit. Does anyone have an alternative? I assume the best course of action is to get one of those free image viewers and save the images out in some other format. But I figured I'd check with people here before going through the hassle.

The best course of action for what exactly? Are you trying to view dds files and don't need to save them? Do you need a normal map filter?

The lack of vtools and the nvidia tools for cs4 has kept me from upgrading thusfar.

Someone said here it works for them, their French install of CS4 required them to move the plugins elsewhere.
http://developer.nvidia.com/forums/i...showtopic=2493

Edit... a good alternative is to simply use the newer command-line tool. It supports PSD format, and it's very fast. You just have to write a .BAT file for it, or better yet make a javascript tool like James did with vTools.

Right, the plugin doesn't work for 64bit version of Photoshop so the solution was just to use the 32bit version. heh.

I did a little more digging and found that vtools works fine under CS4 64 (at least the part I need) but the nvidia filter still refuses. xNormal's filters work just as well from what I've seen though, and support every version of photoshop I've ever tried them on.

I really also want these Nvidia Filters on CS4 64 bit. Working with highres textures really is smoother when Photoshop has acces to more ram, but I find myself switching back to CS3 all the time due to the absence of the Nvidia filter...

Sorry to dig up an oldy - anyone know if this been resolved yet ?! As far as i know my photoshop plugins still dont work with cs4 64 bit....

I put in a request for an updated Photoshop plugin awhile back. If more people put in requests, the priority will get bumped higher. If you do this, request 64bit support as well, just to make sure that gets in too.

Just downloaded GIMP today for this very reason. Kind of a pain having to shuffle programs to spit out simple 2d textures.

guys..i really really need your help...sorry if i bump this post...

i have a problem about ps cs4 64 bit...i want to open DDS file in there but it says here that the plug in didn`t work for 64 bit so i want to change from 64 bit to 32 bit but i dont know how..plz tell me!!! i really need that ASAP!!

Hey, I found a little script for export dds file in photoshop cs4 64b, I hope that's help :
http://docs.kaneva.com/mediawiki/ind...p_DDS_Exporter

Had the same problem now i use image converter plus, its not as good as simply having the photoshop plugin but its a pretty decent alternative.

Is anyone working on an nvidia x64 normal map plug for phtoshop?

Apparently not.
http://code.google.com/p/nvidia-text...etail?id=33#c8

But there is an alternative, as Froyok posted above!

I can confirm nvidia tools are working in cs4. They just need to be run from the 32bit version.

Great find Froyok! With that script, it uses the CUDA-accelerated version of Nvidia's tools. Saving large dds files is ridiculously fast compared to the old Nvidia Photoshop plugin. It compresses and saves a 2048x2048 texture in less than a second - the old plugin could sometimes take about 10 seconds. I've bound it to a hotkey.

Thanks again!

that script cant seem to find the dern pref file. its in the same dir! =\

**EDIT**
Okay scratch that. Got it working, but the damn thing doesn't support exportation of DDS cubemaps! what gives?

Not to mention you still can't open the DDS' themselves in PS5 :|

Originally Posted by Joshua Stubbles

that script cant seem to find the dern pref file. its in the same dir! =\

**EDIT**
Okay scratch that. Got it working, but the damn thing doesn't support exportation of DDS cubemaps! what gives?

Not to mention you still can't open the DDS' themselves in PS5 :|

Excellent points, thanks for the feedback. If I can squirrel away some free time, I may see if I can address the issues that you mentioned. The import limitation seems particularly limiting.

For cubemaps, you can use the nvassemble command-line tool. Yeah, it's a bit more hassle, but once you make a batch it's pretty quick to run the next time. I haven't used it, but I bet the images are in the same order as the old plugin... +X, -X, +Y, -Y, +Z, -Z, ... which translates to the 3ds Max directions RT, LF, UP, DN, BK, FR.

Opening DDS, hmm, not sure about that one sorry, still using CS3 here. But... I think you can use the Texture Tools command line functions to spit out a TGA or PSD from DDS input? Edit.. yeah, nvdecompress.

Edit edit... talk to your tech artists!

For opening DDS files, you could use Irfanview to first save it in another format like tga then open in PS. It's one more step, but not too much of a hassle, since you can assign a shortcut in Irfanview to launch the image in an external editor like photoshop. So it's just a quick press of SHIFT-e and it pops the image over to photoshop.

For saving lots of textures, the blistering speed from the CUDA enabled version is totally worth the extra bit of hassle.

Anyone got that script working with cs5 x64? Nothing happends when I click the Save File button.

Originally Posted by Joshua Stubbles

that script cant seem to find the dern pref file. its in the same dir! =\

**EDIT**
Okay scratch that. Got it working, but the damn thing doesn't support exportation of DDS cubemaps! what gives?

Not to mention you still can't open the DDS' themselves in PS5 :|

Thanks for the feedback. : ) I just uploaded another version of the tool (really a set of utilities now). Most notably you can now import DDS files into Photoshop (still no cubemap support though). : )

Please let me know if you encounter any bugs etc.

http://docs.kaneva.com/mediawiki/ind...orter#Download

Eric you rock!

Originally Posted by qlz

Anyone got that script working with cs5 x64? Nothing happends when I click the Save File button.

I developed the utilities principally in CS5 (64-bit), so they "should" work well in CS5. : ) Make sure that you do not drop the contents of the extracted "PS64_DDSUtils__v1.2" folder in the root of the Presets\Scripts directory. Instead the intact "PS64_DDSUtils__v1.2" folder (containing the prefs.jsx and the readme.txt files) should be placed in the Presets\Scripts directory, alongside the "PS64_DDSUtils_Importer__v1.2" and the "PS64_DDSUtils_Exporter__v1.2" files. See the image below for more information. Hope this helps. : )

Originally Posted by GCMP

Is anyone working on an nvidia x64 normal map plug for phtoshop?

Have a look at this tool. I haven't actually used it myself as of yet, but it appears to be quite powerful.

http://www.cgted.com/
http://tech-artists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1217