I know how to use the Offset filter, but I was curious if there was a script that allowed you to control the offset of the texture by just panning/dragging the texture around.
slightly offtopic, but maybe you want to give krita a shot its free and has a realtime wraparound mode which is awesome for texture painting heres an example of how it looks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6S2q_or4k4
Trust me, lots of people would love to have such an option in PS...but unless Adobe does it, there's not a lot extension devs can do about it really...They don't give us any good access to image info (without reaaaaally processing it which would slow things down a lot)
Remember Photoshop is Adobe Successful child; it doesn't want it to join any gangs, hoping that analogy was understood hence the limit scripting functionality
You can use it as a complementary tool, it doesn't have to be a replacement. It supports some features of the PSD format so you can keep both programs open and switch between them while you work. Besides the wrap-around mode that @SnowInChina mentioned, Krita also has a normal-map painting mode, a stroke stabiliser, drawing assistants (perspective, rulers, mirror etc.) and other stuff.
Make rectangular selection , go to patterns palette right corner menu and chose "capture pattern", name it , then in the same menu "Check out pattern" . Painter would show a new document where everything you paint would be seamless and you can use Shift+ spacebar to instantly drag/offset, only on Canvas layer although. It's all could be saved as one button script.
It worked perfectly ok couple decades ago in old Painter versions. Now I am not so sure, they are messed the whole soft. Some brushes may not work in seamless mode anymore.
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its free and has a realtime wraparound mode which is awesome for texture painting
heres an example of how it looks
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/PhotoshopTools#Actions.2C_Filters.2C_Scripts
I use Chris Perrella's script a lot, via an Action, bound to a hotkey. Thanks @radiancef0rge
Besides the wrap-around mode that @SnowInChina mentioned, Krita also has a normal-map painting mode, a stroke stabiliser, drawing assistants (perspective, rulers, mirror etc.) and other stuff.
It worked perfectly ok couple decades ago in old Painter versions. Now I am not so sure, they are messed the whole soft. Some brushes may not work in seamless mode anymore.