Photoshop, tileable texture panning

MitchNew

I know how to use the Offset filter, but I was curious if there was a script that allowed you to control the offset of the texture by just panning/dragging the texture around.

SnowInChina

slightly offtopic, but maybe you want to give krita a shot
its free and has a realtime wraparound mode which is awesome for texture painting
heres an example of how it looks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6S2q_or4k4

MitchNew

Is Krita really better than photoshop though?

malcolm

SnowInChina, very cool, I wish that was a plugin for Photoshop. Does krita support photographs or is it just a brush painting program?

gnoop

It's possible also in Painter   and  Zbrush 2,5d mode. I mean to offset a canvas by just dragging it .

malcolm

How does that work in painter?

TooLzor

Trust me, lots of people would love to have such an option in PS...but unless Adobe does it, there's not a lot extension devs can do about it really...They don't give us any good access to image info (without reaaaaally processing it which would slow things down a lot)

cptSwing

^ Layer cake is really good, though.

Eric Chadwick

Layer Cake etc. here
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/PhotoshopTools#Actions.2C_Filters.2C_Scripts

I use Chris Perrella's script a lot, via an Action, bound to a hotkey. Thanks @radiancef0rge

CreativeSheep

Remember Photoshop is Adobe Successful child; it doesn't want it to join any gangs, hoping that analogy was understood hence the limit scripting functionality

kio

To be fair the CEP stuff is pretty nice, it's just the host scripting which is rather limited and slow and ... old and crappy.

RN

MitchNew said:

Is Krita really better than photoshop though?

You can use it as a complementary tool, it doesn't have to be a replacement. It supports some features of the PSD format so you can keep both programs open and switch between them while you work.
Besides the wrap-around mode that @SnowInChina mentioned, Krita also has a normal-map painting mode, a stroke stabiliser, drawing assistants (perspective, rulers, mirror etc.) and other stuff.

gnoop

malcolm said:

How does that work in painter?

Make rectangular selection , go to patterns palette  right corner menu and chose "capture pattern",  name it , then in the same menu  "Check out pattern"  . Painter would show a new document where everything you paint would be seamless  and you can use Shift+ spacebar to instantly drag/offset,  only on Canvas layer although.    It's all could be saved as one button script. 

It worked perfectly ok couple decades ago in old Painter versions.   Now I am not so sure,   they are messed the whole soft.   Some  brushes may  not work in seamless mode anymore.