nDo - Normal creation toolkit

TeddyBear · October 5, 2010 at 6:41 PM

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To all you CG fanatics out there!

I’m releasing nDo, my normal map creation toolkit for Photoshop. Thanks to my colleague Philip Klevestav (http://%7boption%7d) who took the time to write an extensive tutorial for it, it will (after having collected dust for a year) finally be released to the public. For free!

What is this nDo thing?

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.

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More info

To learn more about the tool, go to http://%7boption%7d for installation instructions, tutorials and downloads. For feedback, questions or feature requests, feel free to drop me a mail or two @ teddy.bergsman[at]gmail.com.

Teddy

ElectroSheep · October 5, 2010 at 7:31 PM

That's sound verycool I will test it, I'm sure some teacher at my school will be interested too.

Synthesizer · October 5, 2010 at 7:36 PM

Looks amazing! I'll have to give it a try, seems like so many useful tools in there.

Minos · October 5, 2010 at 7:47 PM

Damn that's really impressive!! Thanks for releasing it guys

PhilipK · October 5, 2010 at 8:30 PM

It's great for sure! I've been using it nearly daily the for months!

Nysuatro · October 5, 2010 at 8:33 PM

Well damn. This is a nice surprise.

insta · October 5, 2010 at 8:39 PM

I wish I had your brain Teddy

Big congrats on the release!

Bunglo · October 5, 2010 at 10:46 PM

Very cool, thanks for all the effort put into it!

Pomperi · October 5, 2010 at 10:48 PM

Woho, this is awesome! Will give it a go, looks like a super handy tool : D

Thanks for the effort guys!

e-freak · October 5, 2010 at 11:35 PM

Teddy, you need to post more often - it's always awesome what you produce! spotlight techartist

bitmap · October 6, 2010 at 12:01 AM

I can't seem to run it on Cs2 and CS5. I get this error.

Error 1302: No such element

Line: 639

-> activedocument.suspendHistoryy(

deceiver · October 6, 2010 at 3:34 AM

Wow, this looks great, can't wait to use it!

TeddyBear · October 6, 2010 at 9:00 AM

Thanks everyone for the great feedback and all the nice comments!

There is now hopefully a fix for the issues that have been mentioned. Just go to Philip's site and download the updated ZIP (http://philipk.net/ndo/nDo.zip) and you should be good to go!

The problem most of you are having...

Error 24: activedocument.suspendHistory is not a function.

Line: 639

-> activedocument.suspendHistory(

...is because an empty document must be created before you run the tool. HOWEVER, the updated nDo now creates a new document automatically if one can't be found.

Download the new ZIP (http://philipk.net/ndo/nDo.zip) and see if it works for you now -- if not, I'm on it.

Thanks again for all your feedback!

Teddy

Pomperi · October 6, 2010 at 9:49 AM

Tried this at home last night in CS3 and it worked like a charm, although when I tried running the latest version at work on CS2 I'm getting the error "You must create a new document before you run nDo!", even if I have one open. If I don't have one open it creates a new document and then tells me I need to create one before running it

TeddyBear · October 6, 2010 at 10:07 AM

Sorry about that Pomp, I haven't had a copy of CS2 to test this on. It's only tested for CS3 and up. This one might take some time to track, I'll fix that confusing alert meanwhile however.

PhilipK · October 6, 2010 at 10:10 AM

Might as well post a new example I made for the tutorial here as well.

Added another example .PSD to the tutorial. Just a photo based one this time where I used hand masking a bit together with my nDo-generated normals (strangely the .PSD is ver large in filesize. I had originally planned to release it in it's full res (1024x1024) but then it'd be around 200MB...)

[Blocked Image: http://philipk.net/tutorials/ndo/tools_example_03.jpg]

PSD: http://philipk.net/tutorials/ndo/Example_03.psd

Tutorial: http://philipk.net/tutorials/ndo/ndo.html

Evert · October 6, 2010 at 11:20 AM

awesome that it's been released teddy, u da man

TeddyBear · October 6, 2010 at 12:58 PM

Pomp (and any other CS2 user out there): get the latest version (http://philipk.net/ndo/nDo.zip), and the tool should now work for CS2 users as well. Thanks for reporting!

Teddy

Minos · October 6, 2010 at 3:18 PM

Quote from PhilipK

Might as well post a new example I made for the tutorial here as well.Added another example .PSD to the tutorial. Just a photo based one this time where I used hand masking a bit together with my nDo-generated normals (strangely the .PSD is ver large in filesize. I had originally planned to release it in it's full res (1024x1024) but then it'd be around 200MB...)
[Blocked Image: http://philipk.net/tutorials/ndo/tools_example_03.jpg]
PSD: http://philipk.net/tutorials/ndo/Example_03.psd
Tutorial: http://philipk.net/tutorials/ndo/ndo.html

Wow that's impressive!!

-HP- · October 6, 2010 at 4:01 PM

Woa, I don't know how this just flew under my radar!

Amazing stuff, I'll give it a shot very soon, thanks!

Also, thanks for the example / tut philip.

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