Tiling with the Gimp

[pyrandon]

Holy Seaweed! Nice little tutorial there! Well done & thanks for sharing!

[RobA]

Just a little update to this technique -

With the latest GIMP 2.4, there is a new feature that defines both a pen and a fill from whatever is in the clipboard!

This means that you don't have to save a bunch of brushes. Just create one source image that is a grid of all your textures, and set a grid that matches in GIMP.

Now just use the rectangular selection tool (snap to grid on) and CTRL-C on the texture you want. This can now be selected as a brush and painted or flood filled as a texture in the map image!

(I can give an example if this is not clear)

-Rob A>

[ravells]

Some screenshots would be nice! (I don't use Gimp but maybe for others who do).

Ravs

[Midgardsormr]

Just joined and already providing that kind of valuable info? Have some rep!

(And welcome, of course)

[RobA]

Here is an example of using GIMP 2.4 to simplify this technique...

I used a DC2 tileset downloaded from the DungeonForge web site. (You need membership to download the files there.) This one contains a bunch of dungeon elements in a 20px grid.
tileset.png

And Follow these instructions:
m11_marked.jpg

Hope that makes it clear!

-Rob A>