Seamless Texture Generator
by Shawn Swift · in General Discussion · 03/23/2005 (11:14 pm) · 30 replies
Thought you guys would find this useful for creating games in the Torque engine:
Seamless Texture Generator Demo
Seamless Texture Generator is a tool for creating seamlessly tileable images from photographs. It can make most textures seamless in a way that looks great with a single click!
STG was created by a professional texture artist, with the professional texture artist in mind, and unlike a lot of other seamless texture tools, it doesn't use alpha blending, mirroring, or warping to blend the edges of the image. It uses a unique algorithm to that avoids the blurring and loss of contrast and color saturation that makes most automatic seamless image making programs fairly useless.
STG will save you hours of work. Not only does it make most textures seamless with a single click, it simultaneously corrects highlights and shadows. And for those textures which need a little extra TLC, STG has the ability to crop/rotate/and remove perspective simply by moving the corners of a selection region.
Seamless Texture Generator Demo
Seamless Texture Generator is a tool for creating seamlessly tileable images from photographs. It can make most textures seamless in a way that looks great with a single click!
STG was created by a professional texture artist, with the professional texture artist in mind, and unlike a lot of other seamless texture tools, it doesn't use alpha blending, mirroring, or warping to blend the edges of the image. It uses a unique algorithm to that avoids the blurring and loss of contrast and color saturation that makes most automatic seamless image making programs fairly useless.
STG will save you hours of work. Not only does it make most textures seamless with a single click, it simultaneously corrects highlights and shadows. And for those textures which need a little extra TLC, STG has the ability to crop/rotate/and remove perspective simply by moving the corners of a selection region.
#22
would be cool to be able to drag the pics into the program.
Regards
starvanger
03/28/2005 (11:46 am)
Hi Shawn,would be cool to be able to drag the pics into the program.
Regards
starvanger
#23
You can do anything with the art you make with the program.
The only time I've seen an app limit what you can do with it is when they come with premade media, like Poser.
Orion:
That is a feature I am already considering implementing.
Berndt:
I considered that as well, but I didn't think many people would use that feature. I guess I should reconsider it. :-)
03/28/2005 (3:13 pm)
Tom:You can do anything with the art you make with the program.
The only time I've seen an app limit what you can do with it is when they come with premade media, like Poser.
Orion:
That is a feature I am already considering implementing.
Berndt:
I considered that as well, but I didn't think many people would use that feature. I guess I should reconsider it. :-)
#24
http://www.seamlesstexturegenerator.com/STGDEMO.zip
04/01/2005 (12:42 am)
The old link for the demo will no longer work... The new link is here:http://www.seamlesstexturegenerator.com/STGDEMO.zip
#25
04/02/2005 (5:37 pm)
Very nice work Shawn. I'm going to have to add this to my tools collection. It's exactly what I've been looking for. Thanks.
#26
http://www.seamlesstexturegenerator.com/
There are sample images which you can view tiled, and a bunch of other information.
04/02/2005 (11:15 pm)
I've now put up the full website for the product here:http://www.seamlesstexturegenerator.com/
There are sample images which you can view tiled, and a bunch of other information.
#27
04/10/2005 (8:43 pm)
The website went down over the weekend, but it is back up now!
#28
Just a note to let you know that the website is once again, back up.
It went down for a few days while it was moved to a new faster, hopefully more reliable server.
Also, I thought you'd like to know that there's going to be a free upgrade for the program released in a few days which will add a bunch of features... including the ability to sharpen a texture using a new sharpening algorithm which is ideal for textures and does not suffer from the ringing artifacts associated with unsharp masking.
04/20/2005 (9:41 am)
Hey guys,Just a note to let you know that the website is once again, back up.
It went down for a few days while it was moved to a new faster, hopefully more reliable server.
Also, I thought you'd like to know that there's going to be a free upgrade for the program released in a few days which will add a bunch of features... including the ability to sharpen a texture using a new sharpening algorithm which is ideal for textures and does not suffer from the ringing artifacts associated with unsharp masking.
#29
i use this all the time if it's available.
it's pretty easy to implement: WM_DROPFILES.
04/20/2005 (10:18 am)
Quote:would be cool to be able to drag the pics into the program.
i use this all the time if it's available.
it's pretty easy to implement: WM_DROPFILES.
#30
I'm not sure if it will make it in the version I will be releasing this week, but if not it will probably make it into the next version.
04/21/2005 (6:19 am)
Drag and drop functionality is definitely something I'm considering adding to the program. I'm not sure if it will make it in the version I will be releasing this week, but if not it will probably make it into the next version.
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A realtime preview for step one would save a bit of time going back and forth between tabs.