Release CS3 1.0

vTools were created to aid me in various ways with my day to day job as an artist in the video game industry. They were designed with my needs in mind, and may not be entirely suited to yours. That said, they were free, right?

vTools homepage is currently here

The tools are:

vSavePSDTGA
Designed for faster saving of TGA image files from a source PSD.

vQuickPSDTGA
Designed, in conjunction with vSavePSDTGA, for much faster saving of TGA image files from a source PSD.

vPlasma
Creates colourful random patterns, similar to the clouds filter, but in colour, and with more control.

vUVWHelper
Creates grids intended to aid in the process of laying out UV Maps for textures in 3D applications.

vBumpshadow
Designed to fake a diffuse shadow, in the style of an ambient occlusion map, from greyscale values in a source height/bump map.

vHexMagnet
Creates tiling hexagonal patterns in a variety of styles and sizes.

vCycleLayersets
Cycels the visibility ans selection of specially marked layersets.

vFontLister
Lists the systems fonts in a textfile, along with their postscript names. Not very exciting, but did I mention it's free?

vScriptListener
Gives additional control over the ScriptListener plugin from within Photoshop. If you don't know what the ScriptListener plugin is for you probably don't need to use this script.

Latest Release info (CS3 1.0):

  • Made small changes to all scripts for CS3 compatability.
  • Added Color Picker Option to Key Color settings in SavePSDTGA.
  • Made changes to the vScriptListener script reflectin gthe desktop as the output path.

The Small Print
Disclaimer
vTools come with no guarantee they'll work as advertised, although they should, and the creator holds no responsibility if anything goes horribly horribly wrong while using them. The CS3 release is intended for use in Photoshop CS3 running on a Windows OS. They might work fine on a Mac, but it's equally possible they won't. If you require versions for CS2 please visit the site and download the final CS2 release.

All scripts are Copyright James A. Taylor (AKA HarlequiN or HarlequiNQB). Any redistribution of the full scripts must be done with the authors approval, or by a direct link to the vTools homepage, while useage of selected code pieces in a divergent script is acceptable without permission as long as the piece is commented as originating with James A. Taylor, and a url to the vTools homepage or www.polycount.net is provided. Contacting the author is left as an exercise for the user (my email is currently down).

vTools © James A. Taylor 2007