Advanced Member Ratchet Posted July 27, 2016 Advanced Member Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 (edited) I would like to be able to create tileable textures using Voxels. This would be possible using a tileable Voxel viewport. Perhaps be able to paint materials on any individual layers before exporting the final texture diffuse, normal, metal and roughness maps. This would make on of the most usefull tool for game creation. Edited July 27, 2016 by Ratchet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 To be able to create tileable textures using surface mode is not useful ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member dimitribastos Posted July 27, 2016 Advanced Member Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 2 hours ago, Carlosan said: To be able to create tileable textures using surface mode is not useful ? How to do this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member ghib Posted July 27, 2016 Advanced Member Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 Please support this Long ago suggested tool. (2009) Sandbox Tiling Engine 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Ratchet Posted July 29, 2016 Author Advanced Member Report Share Posted July 29, 2016 On 27/07/2016 at 3:58 PM, Carlosan said: To be able to create tileable textures using surface mode is not useful ? You mean painting mode ? The picture i posted speaks for himself about the huge difference between painting and sculpting to make a tieable texture. I know it won't come but i wanted to suggest the idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member ghib Posted July 29, 2016 Advanced Member Report Share Posted July 29, 2016 Support the Sandbox Tiling Engine on Trello, it's a feature that was requested a LONG time ago. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Gary Dave Posted September 16, 2016 Advanced Member Report Share Posted September 16, 2016 (edited) On 27/07/2016 at 5:43 PM, dimitribastos said: How to do this? When you start a new project, select Surface Sculpting, and then use the Tiled box 3x3. It's essentially a pre-built scene that uses instanced boxes. But, it's severely limited at the moment. It's fine if you want to put down objects, like laying bricks or creating some rocky cliff face. But the "ground" level is essentially un-workable, and here's why: You can't paint across the volumes, so your strokes will end as soon as it reaches the boundary of one of the "floor" pieces you're working on. I used "bricks" as a good example earlier, but to dive a little deeper into this issue, bricks are only good if your bricks are really close together. If you wanted to have a "floor" of cement that held the bricks together, you're going to run into major seam issues. Like this: I'm a little disappointed to see ghib's original request for a decent tiling engine date back to 2009. I know that it must be a lot of work, and even if you can get past the issues of seams on this "lower" layer, there are still other things that make tiling 3d textures in 3dc a bit of a pain in the bumbum, like if you've got multiple objects (concrete blocks, tins, bits of steel) on the same layer, good luck finding a way of grouping and texturing them all without wanting to smash your head through your desk. I only hope Andrew still has plans for a proper system and hasn't just given us an instanced scene of boxes and then called it a day. A proper 3d tiling system would probably cause a lot of people to flock to 3dc, as although ZBrush has their own, it's a pretty destructive workflow. I'm not sure how Mudbox handles it.Edit Oh, I see Mudbox just has a "tiling plane" system, which makes sense. Better than 9 instanced boxes in my opinion. Edited September 16, 2016 by Gary Dave 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member ghib Posted September 25, 2016 Advanced Member Report Share Posted September 25, 2016 On 9/16/2016 at 4:32 PM, Gary Dave said: A proper 3d tiling system would probably cause a lot of people to flock to 3dc, as although ZBrush has their own, it's a pretty destructive workflow. I have always thought this, and it's been somewhat frustrating to see the idea neglected considering Andrew sounded really keen on it back in 2009. Anyway here's to hoping that renewed interest will spark creativity in Andrew once again. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor Tony Nemo Posted September 25, 2016 Contributor Report Share Posted September 25, 2016 This would be excellent for terrain, buildings, etc. I hope it gets some attention soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor ajz3d Posted September 25, 2016 Contributor Report Share Posted September 25, 2016 (edited) Apart of what has been already said above, another problem is that when you import a textured object (like a brick for example) to sculpt room, 3D-Coat will only import colour texture. It will ignore glossiness/roughness, specular color, etc. even if you import a .3b file. Also, objects that are not directly fused to one of those 9 planes, aren't recognized as a subject for copying to the remaining 8 'planes'. We need to merge them (optimally, without booleans), but if they're low res, then the vertex colour can spill over on the grids... --- EDIT: Export Depth Along Y's "Patch Size" parameter still remains a mystery to me. Edited September 25, 2016 by ajz3d Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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