| » Forum Index » Problems and solutions » Topic: Looking for a refference on "New Tiled Painting from Layer" |
|
Posted on 17/12/14 01:38:01 AM |
|
Frederick
* Posts: 7 Reply |
Looking for a refference on "New Tiled Painting from Layer"
Hi everyone I'm trying to find a book, you tube video or a webpage that explains the"New Tiled Painting from Layer" option (It's a 3D option when converting a file to 3D). This seems like a great function to use when designing textiles however I can't find much information about it. |
Posted on 17/12/14 09:23:15 AM |
|
Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 6994 Reply  |
Re: Looking for a refference on "New Tiled Painting from Layer"
This function is used for creating seamless textures, which can then be wrapped around 3D objects without any visible joins showing. Here's how it works: Start with your initial texture. Either crop the image to the exact size of the texture, or use Free Transform to scale the texture to the size of the canvas (this option works better for small textures). Choose New Tiled Painting from Layer from the 3D menu. Your texture will appear multiple times on the resulting 3D plane, apparently much reduced. Here's what's really happening: the texture has been duplicated eight times, to make a 3x3 grid that shows the identical texture 9 times. Paint on the texture using any of the painting tools. As you paint, you'll see the result appearing on all nine versions of the texture simultaneously. The point of this is that you can create seamless textures by painting over the edges, and can see where the paint stroke reappears on the other side. You'll still have to align the strokes, of course. When you're done, open the Layers panel and double-click the texture, which will appear under the word "Diffuse" in the panel. The texture will open in a new window - a single texture, rather than the 9-tile grid you were working with. You can now save this texture to disk. Hope this helps, and welcome to the forum! |