Can I achieve this in Substance Designer

gearless

Hi, I'm new to Designer, and I need to create a texture from a bitmap, where a bitmap is cropped and tiled on one axis, mirrored every second time, and offseted randomly every time. 



I've decided to try Substnce Designer (which I don't have much experience with) for this, but can not get needed result. I can load a bitmap, crop it, mirror one instance of it and feed two instances into tile tile sampler, but I can not get an offsets. I can use randomize functions of tile sampler, but in this case I get different sized tiles, but I need to have tiles of an equal size with offseted content inside them. So I need to offset tiles before feeding them to sampler. Sure, I can do it  manually, but is there an automated way to do it? I've tried to do it with functions, but don't want to waste much time on learning SD functions, before being sure, that it's possible to do, what I want. 

So my question is - is it possible? 
Thanks.

Eric Chadwick

Yes. Check out the Tile Generator node. To get the differing columns, you may need to use two Tile Generators and combine them using a third as the Blend mask.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyFgpitTsYg&t=638s
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gearless

Eric Chadwick said:

Yes. Check out the Tile Generator node. To get the differing columns, you may need to use two Tile Generators and combine them using a third as the Blend mask.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyFgpitTsYg&t=638s
(Jump to 10:38)

That's what I need. Thanks.

poopipe

less effort: 


you can drive the distribution with a texture instead 

gearless

That's the way, I've tried to do it from the beginnig. But I can not offset the tiles the way I need. I can offset them with random position, but I need the tiles to be equal, and even, but content inside them to be offseted.
I've made it this way: first I create two mirrored textures with with randomly offseted and oversized tiles, then mask them to the right size, and then blend together. As a SD noob - don't know, if it's the easiest solution, but it works )

poopipe

unless you want to get into building your own fxmap that's probably the best thing to do. 

if you do want to build your own it's basically the same steps you'd follow to create a voronoi or poisson distribution - there's plenty of code examples online for those