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Texturelabs Real 3D Plugin... Ready for a test drive!?
🕑 Added 2022-03-09 22:49:50 +0000 UTCHello everyone,
Here we go!!! After many many weeks of working on this thing, I’ve got a Beta version of the Texturelabs Real 3D Plugin for Photoshop ready to go. The plugin is built using the new Abode CCX format, which is only compatible with the latest versions of Photoshop (2022… possibly 2021).
I’ll probably still fuss with the panel layout a bit - I also want to include some presets. But, I’d love for you to check it out and see what you think! Does the user interface make sense? The workflow? How’s it result look!?
The plan is to submit to for official approval from Adobe, which will make it easier to install, and also available in the Creative Cloud plugins shop. I’ll likely price it somewhere around $40, which will include a few video tutorials for effects using the plugin.
Ultimately, I want to make the final plugin available to you, the current Patreon supporters! Then, I’ve gotta work out the details, but I believe I can set it up to be available to future Patreon supporters who have made an annual pledge (or have been monthly long enough to hit $30). Does that seem like a fair plan to you guys?
Ok! Download the plugin below - I also made a quick video walking through the setup and a few of the features.
Quick-start guide:
1) Double click the CCX file, or right click and open with Adobe UnifiedPluginInstallerAgent.
2) This should open Creative Cloud, which will walk you through a few steps to install the plugin.
3) In Photoshop, you’ll find it in the Plugins menu up top.
4) Select any text layer, vector object, shape layer, etc… and click New 3D Object.
5) To continue extruding the object backward in space, click Continue Extrude.
6) To rasterize the 3D Object Layer to separate Face/Extrusion/Cast Shadow layers, click Convert to Layers.
Options:
-To create a textured object, place any texture behind the layer you want to extrude, and select Texture Using: Background. Once you’ve started a new object using Texture Using Background, you can turn off the background texture layer and continue the extrusion.
-For a more realistic render, try Ambient Shadows turned On.
Shoot me an email or comment below with any ideas, questions, or problems. Thanks for checking it out, and for your support as always! In other news, looking forward to getting back to the video tutorial schedule. I should have something new out soon…
Cheers,
Brady
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Hey man :) Just wanted to ask if we multiyear annual supporters might get an access to the final plugin, or if you only want to have it available as a purchase over the Plugin Store.. Wanted to try it out for a personal project, but I dont't seem to be able to install this beta.. Would love to hear back from you :)
Thank you, Brady!
Hey Madelyn! Catching up on the messages here as you can see! To tell you the truth, I forgot this post existed! When I was fist developing the plugin, the good folks on Patreon helped test out early versions of it (this one was round 1). The way these plugins work, they're paired with an ID code that's registered with Adobe - so Creative Cloud is recognizing this as the same final plugin. Anyhow, I'll follow up by emailing you a link that will allow you to install for free....
I'm a new annual supporter. I cannot install the plugin - it says I have to pay for it.
Previews are the thing I'm dying to be able to do! From what I understand, there's not a good way to do it currently but the adobe team is trying to implement that in the future. Gonna work on it though, I've got a few ideas that would make it friendlier than the action!
That would be awesome! It would be great to control the scale and position of the spray texture. Perhaps a live preview? Or a step where I can adjust the spray and then finalize the rest of the steps? I don't know how PS plugins work. 😊
Just tried that out....whoah that does look crazy! It would be pretty awesome and fairly easy to turn the spray anything action into a real plugin with some custom settings. Good call on the icon! Gotta get all those little details in there for the final version. Thanks for the feedback!
Installed fine. The first place I tried to dock it was the collapsed panel section and there's no Icon for it. I tried this extrude effect on your other action that I constantly use and love, the spray anything effect. It looks like a pile of dust or powder that the text is sitting on top of. Pretty cool!
