Tilable organic textures

Spoon

Hi PC,

Making tilable brickwall sculpts, or woodenplanks etc is easy, but how do you go about making tilable soil, mud, rubble etc?
Im talking about tilable in the sculpt, not the cloning/cleanup in photoshop afterwards.

Any tips on this? It's something I consistently run into and would love a solution to.

Joshua Stubbles

Are you using zBrush? I have a tool I made for working on tilable sculpts like that.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1482056/TexturePlane.ZTL

There's a second "centering" subtool in there that you can use for centering/framing the mesh. Then you can hide it and start sculpting. You will need to set WrapMode 1 on your sculpt brushes, then it will wrap around the mesh as you sculpt.

Meloncov

In addition to wrap, you can use the tilda key in the 2.5d canvas in ZBrush to offset the tools you've laid out (works well for debris).

Spoon

Aaaah, I didn't quite get it when I opened the tool, but now I see This is great! Had a lot of issues with the Wrapmode 1 on the standard plane, but using your tool with wrapmode 2 (which I guess is what you mean?) seems much better. Does this almost or entirely kill seams from the depth when baking the sculpt?

Thanks a lot for sharing this, Joshua, that's really nice of you. Helps a ton
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Wow, had no idea about that tildekey thing! Im on a danish keyboard, so it obviously doenst work here, no matter if I press the button that is supposed to be tilde or the actual tilde, so are you aware of where this is in the menus, for example, so I can hotkey it myself?

Damn guys, I had no idea these methods were out there! You made my day!

Stromberg90

About the tilda key I am on a norwegian keyboard and the

Spoon

Thanks, Stromberg. I tried with my

Asyme

Been wondering about this. Looks an awesome thing (thank you) but a very quick test of mine making some blobs led to this in PS: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s89/sh/a56b3880-4a47-4b71-acee-0b03c56ee1b2/8b55e98fabb4ea00c8c0f7d75d5cde8d after an offset. This is on a 1024 project. Nice but would need some cleanup work afterwards...

Spoon

If anyone else is having a danish keyboard, I can say, that it seems to be working with

Steppenwolf

This seems to be the right place to ask this question. When i sculpt tilable textures with wrap mode my zbrush gets really laggy to the point where it's practically not usable for the purpose. My strokes look interrupted instead of continuous because it's so laggy. Any tips to improve performance or brush/stroke settings that work best with this method?

bhall27

Steppenwolf wrote: »

This seems to be the right place to ask this question. When i sculpt tilable textures with wrap mode my zbrush gets really laggy to the point where it's practically not usable for the purpose. My strokes look interrupted instead of continuous because it's so laggy. Any tips to improve performance or brush/stroke settings that work best with this method?

I'm also curious about this. Any answers?

MisterSande

bhall27 wrote: »

I'm also curious about this. Any answers?

Bump. Anyone ?

Steppenwolf

It seems to be hardware related. Don't have this issue anymore after upgrading to a much stronger PC. It makes sense i guess. when using wrap mode you sculpt on several places simultanously so it's much more hardware demanding i assume.

Spoon

I was about to say, that I dont think there is a magic technique, unfortunately. It just effectively doubles up the calculations, so anything that can reduce brush heaviness (spacing etc?) will help.
I have a much stronger pc at work than at home, and have had no problems with it here. Not even if I have wrapmode on 3, and brushes are flying around everyone on the model.

MisterSande

thanks for the feedback, seems I need to save up for a new PC... Can I ask what +~ your system builds are ?