Land / Sea Fill Textures

[ravells]

(Copied from the Software Discussion Section)

I found this texture making software (Texture Maker) on the web. It looks like the mummy and daddy of all seamless texture makers and is also supported as a plug in for photoshop.

Not cheap - 30 Euros, but maybe worth a look. There is a review of it here.

The review also mentions another texturemaker which it rates very highly- PhotoSEAM and it's about the same price US$ 35.



Ravs

[ravells]

Here are some more seamless tiles. Various shades of noise and a woodcut sea. All are 1024 pixel squares. Edit: All future textures in black and white so it's easy to tint in your own stuff when you import it. These can be used for forest / mountain fills or just to give a map a background grain texture. All made with alienware eyecandy / xenoflex filters in psp.

[ravells]

This is the forest seamless fill and result and a fields fill and result

[ravells]

This is a bryce default terrain heightmap.

[RobA]

This is a bryce default terrain heightmap.

As a reference, here is that HF rendered with the same scaling but various exponents applied to the height (from ^1, i.e, original, through ^5). I quickly threw in contour-ish lines to show the stretching.

Each pair has the render on the left and the hf on the right.

-Rob A>

[ravells]

Here is a richly textured seamless tiled sea texture.

Ravs

[Robbie]

Figured I'd contribute one of my favorite seamless texture methods.

Photoshop:

• Press D for default colors (black and white)
• Filter -> Render -> Clouds
• Filter -> Render -> Difference Clouds
• Ctrl-F a bunch of times to repeat difference clouds over and over.
• Filter -> Other -> High Pass (evens out highs and lows, play with the slider)
• Ctrl-A to select all
• Ctrl-V to paste a copy onto a different layer
• Click on Channels tab, and create a new channel
• Ctrl-V to create a copy of the clouds on a channel.
• back to the first layer
• Render - Lighting Effects
• -Choose the channel you created as a texture channel, set height to 8 or so.
• -Set light to directional, and choose an angle (top left for this example)
• Switch to the copied layer (the one you didn't do lighting effects on)
• Filter -> Brush Strokes -> Accented Edges (edge width 1, experiment with other settings)
• Set that layer to overlay on top of textured layer and adjust transparency until happy.