Hi, I came across this video that show modo can paint normal maps besides I don’t use modo.  I didn’t watch the video as it requires me to install QT and I refuse to install it,the only other option is the nVidia normal map tool, is there not a way to create it entirely within photoshop to have more control ?  One tool I came across to do that was nDo which is a photoshop action, I couldn’t change the file path in the action so I have partially threw it to the wind.  Any suggestions?

This could be spread across the SI, Maya & Max forums for more variety of input.

Try using Xnormal, it’s free, and comes with plugins for photoshop, and most 3d apps, the application itself supports import/export of fbx, obj formats, as well as several others.

Though i haven’t used the aplication itself much (can’t really get the hang of it :p), the photoshop plugins that it installs are quite useful, and extremely easy to use, compared to the Nvidea filter plugin (the documentation of which seems very lacking)

My 3D work: here and here.

3ds Max 8 SP3 Educational Version (got it while in college)
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Win 7 Pro X64
Q6600 Intel 2.4GHz Quad Core CPU
8 GB DDR2 RAM
Samsung 400GB SATA2 Hard Drive
Asus Std Motherboard
ATI Radeon HD 3800 (I’m not sure how much memory this thing has now, dxdiag says it has 3GB, Sys info says 512MB....wierd)

Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll probably use this :)