2.5D Tiling Texture Tutorials

highbred3d

I've been working a small video series that examines my 2.5D tiling texture workflow from zbrush to photoshop, and thought I'd share it here with the community. It's targeted for beginners and students as it was meant to supplement a class I'm teaching, but there's some intermediate tips throughout too. It covers canvas controls, layout tips, materials, basic rendering and a photoshop demonstration. Hope you enjoy!

http://highbred3d.com/tutorials/zbrush-tiling-textures

Kon Artist

I will watch and follow along this evening after work. Where are you teaching at?

Blaisoid

cool, i'll definitely check it out.

Shogun3d

Sweet, thanks for sharing

leleuxart

Thanks, I'll check it out.

Zepic

Thanks, great tips on the grid and using the layers to offset tiling, I never thought of approaching it that way. I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.

m4dcow

Great stuff man, I have avoided the 2.5d techniques myself because I didn't think they offered enough control, mostly because I never really saw a tutorial that went into the depth that you have here, most are like "the tilde key offsets the canvas, now good luck".

Fingus

Fantastic tutorial! I've been looking into this sort of texturing workflow but you've taken it to a new level. Thank you so much fora sharing.

St.Sabath

Great tut,thanks for sharing your workflow!
Was just starting on some stone wall textures,so perfect timing :thumbup:

highbred3d

Glad you all like it! It's definitely a useful workflow, but there are limitations, strengths and weaknesses when compared to working with subtools for sure. For quick and dirty work or experimental organic textures this process has been great to me.

Blaisoid

it turns out i saw these videos already, they popped out when i was searching for zbrush tilable texture tutorials. there were only 3 uploaded parts back then though, good to see that it's all online now.

what pleasantly surprised me was that unlike many other videos yours explain everything really clearly so even people who lack some basics like me have no problem with following the process. and i don't mean just explaining what to do, you also took time to say why something should be done in a certain way.

there's one issue i encountered though. when i use free rotation on a brick and later try to move it, brick's rotation switches back to the one it had when i dropped it on canvas. any ideas on what causes it?

Blaisoid

EDIT: nevermind, i got it. it turns out i haven't tried to grab the edge instead of area inside the sphere. :poly136:

Oniram

awesome! thanks for sharing. this will be very helpful.