ZBrush Tiling Sculpts

I Fought A Bear · Sep 2013

Here's another way of going about making a tiling texture, it requires a pre-setup tool that I've created which you can find here

Heres a video explaining the process as well:

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Chris Bruin · Sep 2013

Nice pictures

The technique works, I tested it myself.

RMeeks · Sep 2013

Thank you for the tutorial!

I Fought A Bear · Oct 2013

Here's another way of going about making a tiling texture, it requires a pre-setup tool that I've created which you can find here

This method is less intensive on your computer than the other because it uses wrap mode 1 instead of 2 but take a tiny bit more prep, I prefer it more though.

Heres a video explaining the process as well:

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gsokol · Oct 2013

Awww yeah.

Thanks for posting man.

DougClayton4231 · Oct 2013

Thanks for posting! I'll definitely have to give this a try :P

I Fought A Bear · Oct 2013

Here's also a super cool script for fixing those seams that show up when you want to export.

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=287372&d=1324640357

Pabs · Oct 2013

Moutrave · Jan 2014

This is great

thanks guys

Bek · Jan 2014

tip: if you're using the 2.5d canvas for tileable textures, which itself is fantastic, don't press 'bake' in the layer palette. Doing so will cause a seam within zbrush; not even the export script will be able to save you then.

MisterSande · Mar 2015

Has anybody actually used this method in their workflow ? I tried it many times but whenever I use the "wrapmode set to 2" method my Zbrush slows down SO much it becomes impossible to sculpt in.

If someone could make a video (or take some screenshots) actually showcasing this method using highly detailed sculpts then I would be very greatfull !

ps. My specs: 16GB ddr3 ram, AMD Phenom IIx4 ~3,20GhZ, GTX 570,1.5GbRam.

It should be noted that my memory
the active memory stays low, yet the lagg is incredible. CPU issue ?

Chase · Dec 2015

I've wondered this too. When I turned on wrapmode my pc starts chuggin!!

m4dcow · Dec 2015

Yup, wrap mode has a performance penalty, especially when set to 2. Basically don't use the method in the video where it says to use wrap mode set to 2.
I actually made a short tutorial myself a few weeks ago to help someone out and what I call "wrap mode bounds" in the video is actually zbrush unified space. Basically the unified space is a set according to the furthest bounds of geometry you import into zbrush, it is also why the axis of symmetry can be messed up sometimes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu_p-l9TMjY

When you understand using unified space, you can do a bunch of other cool tiling tricks, one example would be having solid columns that tile in the middle but have a unique base and top, like this quick example:

You can see where unified space was set to.

ZBrush Tiling Sculpts

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