in zbrush is there a way to apply a geometric pattern alpha evenly onto a sphere or roundish object?

Travis C

like say you have a pattern of tiny triangles and you want to repeat it over the whole thing seamlessly, or near seamlessly.

Scruples

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyKwW7ehQGU
I don't have Zbrush installed atm but there should be a UV by face option which can get you something similar to this with a quad-directional tiling texture (made easily in Krita using the multibrush)

Travis C

Scruples said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyKwW7ehQGU
I don't have Zbrush installed atm but there should be a UV by face option which can get you something similar to this with a quad-directional tiling texture (made easily in Krita using the multibrush)

hi scruples! thank you ill give it a shot! that is close to what i am looking for, but im looking to make it like sculpted surface detail pattern, like for example scale mail armor or some kind of sci fi pattern on a suit.  im assuming there's a function that can convert paint data to a mask? and then i can either play with the deformation sliders, scaling , or layer brush  to do it?

Scruples

Seamlessly tiling a directional texture like scales is difficult at that point I would accept that there would have to be seams, (there are ways around it but it's not worth it imo).
So in that case I would apply uv's and load the texture in noisemaster and play with the settings until I got what I wanted.

here there's no seams since it's a cylinder but a more complex shape will certainly have seams. Certainly there are places to hide the seams no?