Our pipeline tends to work best when using TGA files for textures (it does work with PSDs but to be honest I don’t really trust it :)) However I’ve always found it a bit cumbersome to actually save out a copy from Photoshop, requiring you to ‘Save As…’, pick the file type, fix the name, yes I do want to overwrite, etc.<\/p>\n
I figured a nice little script would streamline this considerbly.\u00a0 And as an added bonus it’s possible to execute a script through an action, which also allows you to assign a keyboard shortcut to it. With this setup I just hit F2 and I get a tga of the current document, no interaction at all, it just spits it out without disrupting anything.<\/p>\n
There’s just one thing to watch out for; by design, it will overwrite the old tga file without warning, so you need to make sure that the tgas are treated as a purely automatic intermediate step and shouldn’t be hand altered.<\/p>\n
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Just save this code to a .jsx file, create a new action and execute the script while it’s recording (File -> Scripts -> Browse…).<\/p>\n
\r\nvar docName = app.activeDocument.name\r\nvar docPath = app.activeDocument.path.fullName\r\n\r\nvar splitName = docName.split(".")\r\n\r\nvar fileName = splitName[0]\r\n\r\nfor (i=1; i<(splitName.length - 1); i++)\r\n{\r\n\tfileName = fileName.concat( ".", splitName[i] )\r\n}\r\n\r\nvar newFileName = docPath.concat( "\/", fileName, ".tga")\r\n\r\ntargaFile = new File( newFileName )\r\ntargaSaveOptions = new TargaSaveOptions()\r\ntargaSaveOptions.resolution = TargaBitsPerPixels.THIRTYTWO\r\ntargaSaveOptions.alphaChannels = true\r\n\r\napp.activeDocument.saveAs(targaFile, targaSaveOptions, true, Extension.LOWERCASE)\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our pipeline tends to work best when using TGA files for textures (it does work with PSDs but to be honest I don’t really trust it :)) However I’ve always found it a bit cumbersome to actually save out a copy from Photoshop, requiring you to ‘Save As…’, pick the file type, fix the name, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/david.buttress.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/david.buttress.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/david.buttress.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.buttress.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.buttress.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/david.buttress.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"http:\/\/david.buttress.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/david.buttress.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.buttress.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.buttress.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}