nDo - Normal creation toolkit

[TeddyBear]

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://www.philipk.net/) 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.

More info

To learn more about the tool, go to http://www.philipk.net/ndo.html 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]

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

[Synthesizer]

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

[Minos]

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

[PhilipK]

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

[Nysuatro]

Well damn. This is a nice surprise.

[insta]

I wish I had your brain Teddy

Big congrats on the release!

[Bunglo]

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

[Pomperi]

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

Thanks for the effort guys!

[e-freak]

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

[bitmap]

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]

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

[TeddyBear]

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]

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]

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.