Land / Sea Fill Textures

[AidyBaby]

Here's the building pattern I made and used (all welcome to steal if it floats your boat!)...

[ravells]

This is the forest seamless fill and result and a fields fill and result

[ravells]

This is a bryce default terrain heightmap.

[RobA]

This is a bryce default terrain heightmap.

As a reference, here is that HF rendered with the same scaling but various exponents applied to the height (from ^1, i.e, original, through ^5). I quickly threw in contour-ish lines to show the stretching.

Each pair has the render on the left and the hf on the right.

-Rob A>

[ravells]

Here is a richly textured seamless tiled sea texture.

Ravs

[Robbie]

Figured I'd contribute one of my favorite seamless texture methods.

Photoshop:

• Press D for default colors (black and white)
• Filter -> Render -> Clouds
• Filter -> Render -> Difference Clouds
• Ctrl-F a bunch of times to repeat difference clouds over and over.
• Filter -> Other -> High Pass (evens out highs and lows, play with the slider)
• Ctrl-A to select all
• Ctrl-V to paste a copy onto a different layer
• Click on Channels tab, and create a new channel
• Ctrl-V to create a copy of the clouds on a channel.
• back to the first layer
• Render - Lighting Effects
• -Choose the channel you created as a texture channel, set height to 8 or so.
• -Set light to directional, and choose an angle (top left for this example)
• Switch to the copied layer (the one you didn't do lighting effects on)
• Filter -> Brush Strokes -> Accented Edges (edge width 1, experiment with other settings)
• Set that layer to overlay on top of textured layer and adjust transparency until happy.

[RPMiller]

Very nice texture. Has PhotoShop always automatically produced seamless textures? I could have sworn I used to have to use offsets to make them seamless.

[Robbie]

most of the filters are seamless...the ones that generate random pixels definitely are such as clouds and difference clouds...a lot of the texturing and processing stuff isn't seamless...and I don't think any of the layer effects are seamless.

[pedrov]

This is a seamless 400x400 "forest" texture I originally posted at dundjinni.com. Very large scale feel, grasslands and bushes or trees. Created in Genetica. I probably still have the .gtx if someone needs a larger (or smaller) version, or some variations.

[ravells]

I really like that texture, Robbie. Will be playing with it later.