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Having trouble creating seamless textures. Help!!

Postby Kafetist » Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:55 pm

I can do a good range of textures, have a nice photoshop experience and all. - have a decent digi camera too so I can get nice effect layers on my cool textures, and all.

I just can't make em seamless AND look cool at the same time, so.. HEEELP!!

** Any tips'n'tricks and software ideas are very wellcome! **

-- I bet there's a whole range of ppl with the same problem, so help them out too! ;) --
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Postby JohnJ » Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:32 am

It's easy! Just download Texture Studio (which I have released for free):
http://www.alsbonsai.com/john/texturestudio.zip

It not only makes textures seamless, but corrects for perspective (for example, if you take a picture of a flat surface at an angle, it will straighten it out).

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... or are you reffering to something else?
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Postby Kafetist » Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:53 am

I think we're talking about the same thing here. I gotta check out if it has any real seamlessness functions tho ; ) The perspective change looks cool tho, so I might keep it just for that too =)
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Postby Sage » Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:05 am

Wow!, thanks for making this available John!

It's working great for me.
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Postby Aaron » Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:52 am

Hello,

Looks great John, I imagine this will be very useful for a lot of us. Good seamless textures are pretty hard to come-by.

For the benefit of everyone else, I though I might mention that John's ‘Texture Studio’ now has a home of sorts on his project page in the wiki:

http://www.bundysoft.com/wiki/doku.php?id=projects:johnj#texture_studio

If you would like to set up a similar page (or pages) for your own project(s), but don't really know how all this wiki stuff works, please send me a mail or private message and I'll get you started.

Cheers,
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Postby Q-dad » Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:45 am

Looks great! :)

(There's a downlink for the source code as well on that wiki page, but the URL is the same as for the program itself.)
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Postby Aaron » Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:07 pm

Q-dad wrote:(There's a downlink for the source code as well on that wiki page, but the URL is the same as for the program itself.)


Fixed.
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Postby Q-dad » Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:41 pm

Thx! :) Brain currently in Delphi mode, but might get around to try out Blitz3D one of these months...
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Postby JohnJ » Sat Mar 04, 2006 5:45 pm

Q-dad: Blitz3D is nice for games and 3D stuff, but for things like this, it's probably not the best choice (I probably should have used C++ to make Texture Studio a "proper" windows application, but I didn't want to have to impliment an OpenGL rendering system (which would be needed for fast hardware-accelerated zooming like there is now) so I just used Blitz3D which was handy).
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Postby Rofar » Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:47 pm

Thanks for the link and for making this available John. This is going to be very handy. It's now in my "tools I can't live without" list.
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Postby DeathTwister » Sat May 20, 2006 10:49 pm

WOW way KEWL,

OMG thanks JohnJ for the goodie :lol: :wink: what a great Idea :idea: I just finished downloading this puppy and will play with it tomorrow. Thanks again as this will help me with Photos I am taking at an angle. Dang glad I found this. Your just 2 8) .

Kafetist Wrote:
I can do a good range of textures, have a nice photoshop experience and all. - have a decent digi camera too so I can get nice effect layers on my cool textures, and all.

I just can't make em seamless AND look cool at the same time, so.. HEEELP!!

** Any tips'n'tricks and software ideas are very wellcome! **


I have been using MuRa's seamless texture plugin that is free and quite good.
The site is at:
http://www.geocities.com/murakuma/

It is a very good plugin I think as well, and yours JohnJ will work great hand in hand with his I think. I will have my programmer look at the source John as well. WOOT many cheers to yaz....

Side note, Hope you 2 have U know what still turned on :wink:

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Postby Joshua » Sun May 21, 2006 9:28 am

There's also texture assets that you can pay for if you're looking for a quick and professional fix (or in case you wanna avoid the massive headaches of seamless tiling). :wink:

EDIT: After reading your other posts, I think I'll recount this and tell you to keep donating!!!
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Postby dead.rabit » Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:50 pm

heres a great way to create textures

you have 30 days trial period so create as many as you are going to need in that time unless you have £150 to spare

http://www.filterforge.com/

its a photoshop plugin.

it took me about half an hour to figure it out, interface is very easy.

and theirs a lovely tickbox button that says
"make this texture seemless"

hope it helps
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