Zlogger - Substance Boy

Its been pretty well established that you can send a .jsx file to Photoshop using a subprocess call in Python. The tricky part is then getting Photoshop to send some information back. This is my awesome hacky method of passing information from Photoshop to Python. It relies on being able to write to a temporary text file from Photoshop and then reading that information back into Python. This method relies on actually being able to write data to disk... if that's a problem I suspect you could do the same to the console standard output and get the same results... somehow? Maybe? Because writing to the disk was not a problem in this situation, I went with a temp file solution. The only kinda tricky part was making my program wait for the return value to be passed. Subproces.call() returns a value of 1 or 0 from the shell, but this only indicates that the program successfully (or not) opened. Its highly likely that whatever script you passed to Photoshop as part of the Subprocess cal...

Stuff is happening... After a little while in the field it came to be pretty apparent that the win32com module  can't  be relied upon to consistently work on everyone's machines. I spent a good amount of time trying to work out why , but came up with no solution that worked consistently on everyone's workstations. Errors like ('Member not found, None, None) would constantly pop up in their debug feedback, but not on mine. Talk about frustrating. So I got pretty annoyed and just ripped the win32com components out.  This was a pretty big undertaking, because apart from the GUI, win32com stuff made up about 80% of the remaining code. The P4 functionality wasn't touched, because its operating through it's own native API.  The solution: Photoshop Automation without win32com! The solution I went with was to write a wrapper around the JavaScript equivalent of what I was using the win32com module for. Each of these commands would be put into a list, which is then compi...

Zbrush, one hour. Felt like doing something a little more natural looking. Kinda feel I could have pushed the character a little further... maybe I will later. Its a happy/bored bear...