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MultiShader from Photoshop layers
Posted: 18 January 2012 08:29 PM   [ Ignore ]  
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I have looked through the tutorials and read the manual on this. 

I see you can take a Movie and break it down into layers inside Multi Shader.

I see you can now import single files from a folder.

I seem to recall seeing somewhere that you could take a Photoshop layered file into Multishader and have it automatically breakdown the PS layers to layers in Multishader.

Of course I can’t get this to work.  Am I mistaken?  Is this not possible>

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Posted: 23 January 2012 02:57 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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AFAIK this is not possible, the closest thing I can think of was Rick’s Planesmart, which can break PSDs down into separate images that are then attached to planes.

That said you can load the same PSD into multi-shader slots and then manually specify which layer a specific slot is referring to.

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Posted: 23 January 2012 03:56 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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The easiest solution was to use the Layers—> Files script in Photoshop. Break down all the layers into individual files in a folder and load them up in Multishader in one fell swoop.

I just thought I remembered a tutorial where it was done from the layered file.  It actually may have been the Planesmart plugin.

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