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Tiling - is there a better way?

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Tiling - is there a better way? Alf Lacis 08 Jun 09:20
  Tiling - is there a better way? Michael Schumacher 08 Jun 10:07
   Tiling - is there a better way? Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris 08 Jun 13:22
    Tiling - is there a better way? Michael Schumacher 08 Jun 14:17
     Tiling - is there a better way? Gilberto 08 Jun 14:55
     Tiling - is there a better way? Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris 09 Jun 04:39
    Tiling - is there a better way? GSR - FR 08 Jun 19:43
Tiling - is there a better way? Alf Lacis 09 Jun 01:45
Alf Lacis
2006-06-08 09:20:22 UTC (over 18 years ago)

Tiling - is there a better way?

Tiling is described on http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Tileable_Textures/ as "Select Layer -> Transform -> Offset. Then choose the convient "x/2, y/2" option, and hit OK. "

This is pretty awful.

Is this question better raised at the 'developers' mailing list?

A better way of doing textures would be to show 'phantom' copies of the tiled image like this:

| | copy | copy | copy | |
----------------+----------------+---------------- | |
copy | copy | copy | |
----------------+----------------+---------------- | |
copy | copy | copy | |

When you make a paint brush mark across a boundary you see it tiled properly!
Like this mock-up of 4 backslashes to simulate a diagonal line.
\ \
\ copy |\ copy |\ copy \ | \ | \ ---------------\+---------------\+---------------\ \ \
\ copy |\ copy |\ copy \ | \ | \ ---------------\+---------------\+---------------\ \ \
\ copy |\ copy |\ copy \ | \ | \

or viewing the image by itself without all the copies:

+---------------\+ \ \
|\ copy |
| \ |
+---------------\+

Michael Schumacher
2006-06-08 10:07:14 UTC (over 18 years ago)

Tiling - is there a better way?

Von: Alf Lacis

A better way of doing textures would be to show 'phantom' copies of the tiled image like this:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327175

HTH, Michael

Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris
2006-06-08 13:22:52 UTC (over 18 years ago)

Tiling - is there a better way?

On Thursday 08 June 2006 05:07 am, Michael Schumacher wrote:

Von: Alf Lacis

A better way of doing textures would be to show 'phantom' copies of the tiled image like this:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327175

Do'h??

I thought the one line answer to this would rather be: Filters->map->make seamless

HTH,
Michael

Michael Schumacher
2006-06-08 14:17:22 UTC (over 18 years ago)

Tiling - is there a better way?

Von: "Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris"

On Thursday 08 June 2006 05:07 am, Michael Schumacher wrote:

Von: Alf Lacis

A better way of doing textures would be to show 'phantom' copies of the tiled image like this:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327175

Do'h??

I thought the one line answer to this would rather be: Filters->map->make seamless

The result of this is less than perfect, and the time invested in the original mail seems to indicate that there is interest to implement it, and the bug report is the best possible answer in this case.

At least I don't read this mail as a basic "help, can someone please show me how to make a seamless texture?" message.

Michael

Gilberto
2006-06-08 14:55:14 UTC (over 18 years ago)

Tiling - is there a better way?

At least I don't read this mail as a basic "help, can someone please show me how to make a seamless texture?" message.

This is a portuguese tutorial. Following the pics is no difficult achieve the same result.

http://www.gimp.com.br/tutoriais/jaguar/ver2_2.html

Gilberto

GSR - FR
2006-06-08 19:43:57 UTC (over 18 years ago)

Tiling - is there a better way?

Hi,
gwidion@mpc.com.br (2006-06-08 at 0822.52 -0300):

On Thursday 08 June 2006 05:07 am, Michael Schumacher wrote:

Von: Alf Lacis

A better way of doing textures would be to show 'phantom' copies of the tiled image like this:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327175

Do'h??

I thought the one line answer to this would rather be: Filters->map->make seamless

Make seamless is "make ghosts" in reality. It is only useful for abstract results. For anything that must look real or at least have some control, the current way is offset. And in other apps, the auto wrap around feature (a la pacman, exit to the left and you appear in the right), or that phantom proposal (it is what tileablur does, btw).

GSR

Alf Lacis
2006-06-09 01:45:58 UTC (over 18 years ago)

Tiling - is there a better way?

This is a Portuguese tutorial. Following the pics is no difficult achieve the same result.

http://www.gimp.com.br/tutoriais/jaguar/ver2_2.html

Gilberto

Thanks, Gilberto: Google made a passable translation for us ignorant Westerners who only have one language at:

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gimp.com.br%2Ftutoriais%2Fjaguar%2Fver2_2.html&langpair=pt%7Cen&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris
2006-06-09 04:39:02 UTC (over 18 years ago)

Tiling - is there a better way?

On Thursday 08 June 2006 09:17 am, Michael Schumacher wrote:

Von: "Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris"

On Thursday 08 June 2006 05:07 am, Michael Schumacher wrote:

Von: Alf Lacis

A better way of doing textures would be to show 'phantom' copies of the tiled image like this:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327175

Do'h??

I thought the one line answer to this would rather be: Filters->map->make seamless

The result of this is less than perfect, and the time invested in the original mail seems to indicate that there is interest to implement it, and the bug report is the best possible answer in this case.

yes..sorry...
I had not read the first e-mail with due attention. I saw the "copy""copy", part, my mind put "blur" in the place of the diagonal slashes, and whe n I had it off sight, I thught it was exactly about what make seamless does.

But indeed, it is exactly about what the bur report is.

At least I don't read this mail as a basic "help, can someone please show me how to make a seamless texture?" message.

Michael