RyanSpaulding Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 Anyone know of a viewer that say, repeats a texture 4 times so you can see easily if it tiles or not? If not, there should be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 in photoshop... select image... edit - define pattern... file - new (set resolution high enough to allow the pattern to repeat a handful of times)... edit - fill... select pattern you just created. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IC Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 Put it in your wallpaper on Windows-set to tile. Takes about 4 seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanSpaulding Posted March 1, 2005 Author Share Posted March 1, 2005 Put it in your wallpaper on Windows-set to tile. Takes about 4 seconds. This is usually what I do. I just wanted something a bit quicker to sift thru my textures. The PhotoShop way, while I know how, just isn't fast. It would be pretty cool to have a freeware program that shrinks large textures to smaller for viewing of seams because if the texture is real big, you wont even see it tile on your desktop in windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Nelson Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 A little off topic, but Richard Rosenman has a good image tiler plug-in that is sometimes useful when making textures. It's not great for very defined patterns but works with less noticeable repeats. http://www.richardrosenman.com/photoshop.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manta Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 Just use filter-other-offset Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Videha Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 its one of the functions of Thumbs Plus Viewer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCAD Posted March 3, 2005 Share Posted March 3, 2005 oki..here you go....just made a quick small app whereby you can tile your textures and save it as bmp. http://www.drapefx.com/texeditor.exe good luck, Meher Thakker http://www.mr-cad.com http://www.drapefx.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanSpaulding Posted March 3, 2005 Author Share Posted March 3, 2005 oki..here you go....just made a quick small app whereby you can tile your textures and save it as bmp. http://www.drapefx.com/texeditor.exe good luck, Meher Thakker http://www.mr-cad.com http://www.drapefx.com Excellent! Thanks a lot. This speeds things up a bit. Not that you're looking for suggestions, but having large images shrink to fit the window would be amazing, so that it'd be easier to see if the image tiles w/o editing because right now, you have to slide over to see it all. Also, an easy way to just run through each image in a directory would be crazy beneficial too. Say you have a folder for grass. This viewer could then take all maps, shrinking large textures so you can see them tiled 4 times, and you could easily jump from texture to texture. I'd freekin pay for that tool. But this will do as well. Thanks man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCAD Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 kool..I see some features in there and benefits too for all. I'll try to add those features. By the way if you have more ideas lemme know..can try and make it more useful..my purpose is not to commercial it..but just a handy tool for the cga community. cheers meher thakker http://www.drapefx.com http://www.mr-cad.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RErender Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 I've always wanted a tool like this but didn't ever think on existed, I found this viewer http://www.newviewgraphics.com/ lets you view a tiled image and resize it and tab through a folder among other things. Maybe save MR.CAd some coding or inspire him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpict Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 with irfanview press shift+strg+T and you get your actual image tiled over the desktop. simply press shift+strg+P to return to your previous desktop. -rpict Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
driver8 Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 i have a fav that i use called Texture discovery - this program is essential for my work - allows you to view any tecture in a tileable format - in sphere and plane - and quickly allows you to change the tile dimensions - ie from 2 x 2 to 8 x x8 http://www.i-tex.de/ oh - and its free also - you will find it in the download section enjoy driver8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCAD Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 RErender : I'm sure there are alot of tools to view tileable images but my purpose was to view them tileable and make them seamless so the users can save and make use of it...well to save the ps work..hehe will be making some changes soon...going to be travelling for 10 days tho..will come back and make some additions good luck, Meher Thakker http://www.drapefx.com http://www.mr-cad.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregmc Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 Thanks Meher, Nice tiling tool! Would it be possible to allow the option of maintaining the original texture size, while still being able to completely adjust the image overlap? This would allow some real nice seamless variations while creating the texture. Would it also be feasible to allow different overlaps for the top vs btm or right vs left sides? It would really be excellent to have that much control in your tool. Lots of requests, but still thanks for the tool as is! cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ismael Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 Thanks from me too! Ismael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marpetti Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 Try this little app. Just copy your image and paste it. Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanSpaulding Posted March 4, 2005 Author Share Posted March 4, 2005 i have a fav that i use called Texture discovery - this program is essential for my work - allows you to view any tecture in a tileable format - in sphere and plane - and quickly allows you to change the tile dimensions - ie from 2 x 2 to 8 x x8 http://www.i-tex.de/ Oof. SO very very close. If the 'show mapping' was the way it viewed w/o having to press another button, this would be golden. It's still silver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RErender Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 Meher, since you are determined Any chance of adding some functionality as described in this paper https://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~sorkine/courses/sadna04/wang_tiles.html The Ideal to me would be to have such controls in a bitmap loader directly in max. Not to "look a gift horse in the mouth" but the addition would be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Extraterroide Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 Beautiful tool MrCAD! But never you forget tools that offers us our packages 3D to create textures, because mixing textures is as the best results are obtained, I sometimes I paint my own textures in Photoshop and my masks in Corel Draw, also use Deeppaint3D and Texporter to alter textures and mappings, but other times it is not necessary to me, I mix bitmaps with maps procedural in 3DS Max, the combinations are infinite and the tilling is perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Buchhofer Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 for people who have darktree 2.5 heres a little something that works fairly well most of the time the filename is tweaked, so you *may* be able to use it if you just have the simbiont. milage varys per image obviously, as it blends across a pattern with varying rotations.. demo of tiling a painful texture: http://www.buchhofer.com/Darktree_Tile_Demo_FlagStones.jpg explanation of the darktree: http://www.buchhofer.com/Darktree_Tile_Demo.jpg the darktree itself: http://www.buchhofer.com/Darktree_Bitmap_Tiler.dstc Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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