#tiling textures

[3dgames95]

Project 1: Asset Design 3

This week’s task was to practice tile texturing. The idea is that you begin with a 1st person image of a texture and then throw that image into Photoshop so that the image square can then be tiled continuously and seamlessly. The biggest struggle I face while trying to get the image to look seamless, where the shadow variations between two opposing sides of the image. For example, in the image I took of the pavement, there are several parts of the image that have darker overarching shadows in some parts while on the other end of the image it is much lighter. Despite having taken the photo on an overcast day where the light was nicely diffused over the pavement, this still posed an issue. As you can see in the screen shot from photoshop, this was hard to hide with the spot-healing and clone stamp tools without creating a subtle grid within the tiled texture. Once, this was added into Substance Alchemist though, I was able to use several filters such as the dirt and water filters to make this grid less noticeable and obvious. 

[salmika]

#202 is a grass texture I'm working on for caravan scene :D

[kyleyoungblom]

I've been making tiling patterns in Krita, a free painting app.

Krita's live tiling and mirror/radial symmetry are a blast to work with. I've been hoping for something like this from Photoshop for years, though it seems Adobe are dead set on adding 3D features and fancy filter effects instead.

[particleffects]

Textures and SubUVs

Digging into creating custom SubUV textures.  Here are two useful links I found!

Tiling

Contact Sheets

[czartedition]

Down on the Boardwalk and Afternoon at the Red Tavern

Technique wise, I mostly treat digital painting the same way I treat traditional media - but in the occasional case of needing to break up large areas of compositional space, I've finally taken to painting myself tiling textures to fill it.

For those unaware, you accomplish this by painting your texture in the software of your choice, dragging it into Photoshop, and navigating to Filter --> Other --> Offset. Fiddle with the sliders until you wind up with the former edges of your canvas visibly crossing in the middle. Paint over these intersections to line them up seamlessly. Offset again to make certain. Once you can seamlessly offset the texture, repeat it on a large plane, and navigate to Edit --> Transform --> Perspective. Depending on the area you are trying to texture, Warp and Distort may also be useful. Fit into your image. Paint over the edges or use layer masks as necessary to clean up your fit.

As for these particular pieces, the first was an individual commission, and the second was a group commission I orchestrated (the character behind the bar is Blood Raven, one of my personal OCs). Other than the floor and boardwalk textures, all other aspects of these pieces were drafted and painted with my usual approach. (Sketch - color flats - multiply and overlay to establish base lighting - and then just loads and loads of straightforward painting.)

15 hours and 89 hours, respectively. Please do not use the textures without my permission, but if you are interested in them, feel free to ask!