Zbrush: Sculpting tileable *non-square* textures

GarageBay9

I've got some large sandstone cliff faces I'm working on right now that are going to have to tile both directions, but to break up the repetition well enough, they need to be 2:1 (2048x1024).

I've been partying with Wrap Mode in Zbrush on some other tileables for this level, but it doesn't want to work properly with non-square dimensions. Instead of wrapping according to the mesh's local dimensions, it's tiling as if it's 1:1, even with Wrap Mode set to only 1.

Any pointers? Photoshopping it isn't going to produce nearly as good of results as I'm hoping for.

cryrid

You might have to do a wrap mode of 2, then rely on masks to limit it

GarageBay9

cryrid wrote: »

You might have to do a wrap mode of 2, then rely on masks to limit it

Hmm... you're right, I think that'll work, but ugh. Cumbersome.

Time to bug Pixologic to include a proportion-sensitive toggle for the wrap mode.

DeadlyFreeze

Have you tried the old ~ key trick with a displacement map. Alot easier then trying to use wrap IMO.

GarageBay9

Yeah, I've been using that as well, but don't quite know Zbrush's 2.5D sculpting mode well enough to get the sculpting results I want from 2.5D. I've got a 2:1 tesselated plane I'm sculpting on for this, since there are some deep depressions and crevices I wanted to capture in the normal.

DeadlyFreeze

You don't really sculpt with the 2.5D tools, once you make it tillable you make a displacement map of it and use that to re-project your sculpt and keep sculpting as normal.