Zbrush black seam on tileable texture????

R00

Hey peeps,

Working on some tileable textures and want to extract a matcap from Zbrush. Bare in mind that the texture tiles perfectly when I use the mrgb grabber. but when I grab the doc and extract it it gives me a funky seam on the top and or the bottom of my material/texture.

Anyone no a simple fix?

here are some pics...

Tileable texture



Weird seam!



Cheers peeps

cryrid

This has been around for a while, exporting the documents tends to add a few pixels to the edges.

You could try either a best render, turning off shadows and other render properties, or trying this script: http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?94752-Useful-small-ZScripts-and-Macros-for-ZBrush-4-amp-4R3&p=848052&viewfull=1#post848052

m4dcow

Best render will work for me without a seam on most matcaps, but some still give the issue.

In a recent tutorial set about tiling textures by highbred3d (http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=107062) He had these seam issues but just fixes them in photoshop using the spot heal brush and constraining to a straight line with shift. This tutorial series is great and goes in depth with making textures in zbrush 2.5 mode.

R00

Cheers guys for the help, will test these when I get back from work. Will post results later. Really like your Medieval Building m4dcow!

R00

Okay you guys rock!

So let me break down what I did should anyone fall into this problem.

1) I installed the Tileable Texture plugin cryrid gave me.
2) when you have your model set up, use the plugin which is under the texture tab and it will generate your material onto the document file size.

*One side note, when applying your normal material... turn off shadows in render properties as this affects your material when applied.



Hopefully you guys may have learned something from this and I'd like to thank m4dcow and cryrid for their responses and very useful links!