Hand painting tiling textures

System

Quick and easy question here guys... and I feel like a total bonehead for not knowing how to do this, but I'm pretty sure it's a case of me overthinking things like I usually do.

How do you create handpainted tiling textures for surfaces with irregular geometric patterns; stone walls etc (not regular running bond brick walls)?

I've done it a million times with photo-sourced or photo-based textures that have no repeated geometric patterns/lines but I'm having trouble figuring out how to do it with hand painted stuff.

This is the kinda thing I'm talking about;

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/937/stonetileabletiling.jpg (Jessica Dinh mad props)

Enlighten me!

Marine

planning and offset

Rhinokey

how do you have a problem with this? post some images..

if you have done it photosource a lot then you know the bassics of tiling textures,, i just dont see how its any different by hand,, even with photos you have to use the bassic tools like offset and planning.

System

Yeah probably overthinking this.

I haven't even started yet, this is one of those 'hypothetically' moments where I will probably start it and be like 'oh, it's simple'.

I appreciate it's just planning and offsetting but it's the lines that are confusing me (in my hypothetical imagined version). Say you draw in a bunch of old stone slabs, and the joints are uneven, then you offset it and the joints no longer line up.

I think I need to actually try it rather than think about it but I always plan stuff in my head when I'm not at the computer.

Nelios

Pretty easy actually... just like you do it in Zbrush, paint from the center, when you have something, Filter->Other->Offset (you have to do that to the whole texture btw, so, copy merged/new layer, apply image), and contnue to paint on the center of the texture. That way, it will always tile ^^