I prefer not reopen old threads so I will ask for a new one about this request.
How much program alternatives for make seamless or procedural generated textures like Mapzone exist today (free and not free) ? I only need your program recomendations, not a complete list. Thanks you.
i recommend Gimp (Filter -> Map -> Make Seamless).
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Substance Designer has a node for this. I don’t use it often, but when I need it it’s useful.
GIMP does it well and is very easy to use for this purpose. some grid patterns which are not perfectly aligned may come out wrong though, handle grips and basketball textures for example.
FilterForge: full 8/16/32 bits per channel nodal seamless textures and custom filter plugin (and stand-alone) for Photoshop plugin compatible image editors. A library of more than 10.000 effects and textures all free for download. FilterForge comes in four different flavours: basic($149), standard ($249), professional ($399), and professional subscription ($29). Works great with Photoline.
http://www.filterforge.com/
Genetica: powerful nodal seamless texture generator. Comparable to FilterForge, although somewhat more geared towards 3d artists. Basic ($149), Pro ($399), and Studio ($849).
http://www.spiralgraphics.biz
Free Genetica based texture generators:
http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/ww_overview.htm
http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/viewer/index.htm
Blender has a wide range of nodal texturing built right into it.
Photoline, arguably one of the most powerful image editors around, also offers a procedural seamless texture editor. Although it is limited to 1024px, combined with the non-destructive layer-based editing many seamless textures can be generated. Combine this with FilterForge or Genetica!
59 euros. http://www.pl32.com
TG - tg is a texture generation / synthesis tool. use it to create beautiful textures for demos and intros or just for fun.: http://www.blackpawn.com/dev/tg.html
Free.
Seamless Texture Generator: http://www.seamlesstexturegenerator.com/
$40
NeoTextureEdit - NeoTextureEdit is an open source (GNU LGPL v. 3) easy to use graph-based procedural seamless texture editor. Using continuous basis functions it can generate arbitrary resolution images without quality degradation.
http://neotextureedit.sourceforge.net/
Free
Texture Studio is all you need to produce professional quality textures for use in games and tiled backgrounds. Texture Studio includes a set of integrated tools, all extremely useful for creating high quality seamless textures. Texture Studio is so easy to use, a photograph can be converted to a smoothly tiling, seamless texture with a single click.
http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=46368
Texture Maker is a seamless texture generator and designer. The application contains everything needed to create seamless textures for use in 3D rendering packages, game development, web graphics, image and video editing.
http://www.texturemaker.com/tour.php
Basic (30 euro), Advanced (65 euro), Professional (100 euro)
I prefer Seamless Texture Creator 2.2, it is a free and Seamless Texture Creator is a easy-to-use tool for creating seamless-tileable textures from existing images. Normally you don’t have to change any settings, Seamless Texture Creator will automatically create the seamless texture with just a single click! Seamless Texture Creator supports following input formats: Bitmaps (.bmp, .dib, .rle, .wbmp), GIF images (.gif), JPEG images (.jpg, .jpeg), Kodak Photo-CD (.pcd), Metafiles (.emf, .wmf), Portable network graphics (.png), Targa images (.tga, .targa), TIF images (.tif, .tiff), ZSoft Paintbrush (.pcx). And it supports 7 output formats: JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIF, TGA, EMF.
I was stucked searching something free satisfaing my needs:
Seamless noise
Seamless Voronoi
Seamless Height map generation
Seamless Cube map generation (planet scape , cloud sky , deep space starfields…)
Automatic Normal map generation for all stuff listed before
3D noise
…
then I developed it myself:
it’s free at :
gimp is good
filter-forge is a MICROSOFT Windows program
– some versions run mostly well under WINE on linux
BUT it is not cheep
so buy windows7 or 8 as well
but the QUESTION you should ask is for
What kind of seamless tile ???
THAT will dictate the program you use
of note “noiselab15”
noiselab15 is in the Microsoft© C# code
and NEEDS Microsoft dot net Framework 4 ©™
and the download on the g-drive page errors with a “file not found”
link Fixed