Tiling Hex Texture?

Ispheria

Does anybody happen to know how to make a node that converts a tiling square mat to a tiling hex mat? I'm able to do it in like photoshop, but for some reason I can't successfully make a node doing it despite knowing the steps. I'd just do my hex tiles outside of substance designer, but so far all my materials are being done in Substance Designer and I want to keep it that way.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Jerc

The Safe Transform node in the library will allow you to do just that with the rotation parameter.

Ispheria

Sorry I'm trying different things but I'm not getting how that noise is supposed to do what I want. Any chance you could explain in more detail?
Edit: node. Stupid phone

Tzur_H

will be helpful if you show an image of the pattern you're after...even something rough

Jet_Pilot

you can use Alveolus and turn the gradient Filled Cells off, or start with a Polygon 1 and blend different tile generators you offset with transform 2d until you get the proper pattern.

Ispheria

Sorry if I'm unclear at all about what I want to do. It's basically this https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://gamelogic.co.za/2013/08/04/how-do-i-make-a-seamless-hex-tile/&ved=0CDIQFjAFahUKEwi2muSituDGAhVMEpIKHaMeA9w&usg=AFQjCNEwX_EBh7h5EfnaXcW9usSh5yOTnw&sig2=lfpNEZm8WI-Sv97T_aCJaw what I want to end up with us the resulting hex image

Jet_Pilot

Yeah, use my first suggestion and you should be set.

Tzur_H

Polygon 1 shape and splatter circular with count of 3?

Ben Milette

Hey, not sure if this will work for you, but I ended up needing it for myself anyway. It's a tiling hex texture, I exposed scaling, tiling, rotation and gradiants. There's an sbs and an sbsar, I hope it helps!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gm9tleb791loy2r/Hexes.zip?dl=0

Ispheria

Ok I'm honestly not sure whats been wrong with my explanation of what I'm trying to make so far but I guess I'll try again.

What i'm trying to make is a hex filled with a texture that when tiled is seamless. Like how the hex at the end of the link is seamless when tiled

Kosai106

Ispheria wrote: »

Ok I'm honestly not sure whats been wrong with my explanation of what I'm trying to make so far but I guess I'll try again.

What i'm trying to make is a hex filled with a texture that when tiled is seamless. Like how the hex at the end of the link is seamless when tiled

I don't really see how you couldn't do it - I did it in a few minutes following the tutorial you posted earlier.

Get the files here.

NicolasW

I'm not sure your version actually works.. the tiling seems broken.

I made another version (with two methods included).
- Method 1 requires a "make it tile" filter and rotate the base map by 45°
- Method 2 does not need "make it tile" filter if the source already tiles and keeps the orientation but embeds more "pre-tiled" patterns..

If you look at the "hextile_filter" graph you'll see the multiple transformations, I then combined all the matrices to speed up the filter (and avoid quality degradation)

package here: http://1drv.ms/1MiAyi2

SyncViewS

Hi Guys,
I gave it a go too, based on the first method. Get it here.

Cheers

Kosai106

NicolasW wrote: »

I'm not sure your version actually works.. the tiling seems broken.

Never said it was perfect. :poly121:

Ispheria

Thanks NicolasW and SincViewS, that works out great. Sorry for the super late response, I don't have Internet so the only time I can get on is when my freind comes over and i use her phone

djordjeilic

Ben Milette said:

Hey, not sure if this will work for you, but I ended up needing it for myself anyway. It's a tiling hex texture, I exposed scaling, tiling, rotation and gradiants. There's an sbs and an sbsar, I hope it helps!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gm9tleb791loy2r/Hexes.zip?dl=0

Hi Ben,
thanks for nice tips!
Do you have any idea how to add color variation?

Cheers

djordjeilic

Anyone?