How to make such a pattern?

SaintSellotape

How to make such a repeating pattern (1024x1024)?

SnowInChina

make spheres in two different sizes and lay them out on a plane, check tiling with array, then scale in z direction and bake
or do a black&white map in photoshop, tile it and create a normal from that

am i missing something ? because that looks pretty straight forward

SaintSellotape

SnowInChina said:

make spheres in two different sizes and lay them out on a plane, check tiling with array, then scale in z direction and bake
or do a black&white map in photoshop, tile it and create a normal from that

am i missing something ? because that looks pretty straight forward

I thought about this decision.

Obscura

How about making a tiling normal map.You could just bake the normals of a sphere and scatter them around manually or with something like Substance Designer, to make a tiling texture. Then you can erase the parts/ make it flat were you want to.

SaintSellotape

Probably something like that.

SnowInChina

too uniform, the pattern above is random

Obscura

If we are nitpicking about this kind of stuff then they should be also closer to each other. 

Noth

looks fine enough to me, you'll get some variation if it's following geometry shapes and uv distortion, if there is any. Ship it!

SaintSellotape

Added randomness, but it is visible (.

Axi5

I gave it a go:



A few minor tweaks needed her and there. I need to widen my capture group for points that spawn too close together, I also need to try patching up some of the larger gaps. All of that is just tweaking though, I think I have the overall texture down.

I created this in Houdini using a pretty simple setup, would have been done a lot sooner if it wasn't for two crashes... Baked the normal map in Maya though, so it's not MikkT. I couldn't be bothered to fire up XNormal and TB3 was crashing when importing the geo. Shouldn't really make any difference though.

Also this texture is *NOT* tileable.