V2 Released: Tile or Re-tile your textures - Script for DS 1, 2, 3, 4

mCasual

Right Here ====> https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts6/mcjtiletex

example, you have a brick texture image and in your scene you applied it with custom tiling and custom offsets 

but you want to use a shader that doesnt support tiling

or

you want the bump map to use a different tiling, but most materials have only 1 tiling/offset setup

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with the  (upcoming ) script mcjReTileTex

you select a surface

the script lets you select which image to mcjReTileTex

you press a button and using imagemagick a free utility not-by-me

you get a new texture image that looks the same when applied without any Tiling ! ( well with a tiling of 1 by one with no offset )

i made this because the bump map currently displayed on the apron needs to be "manually" reworked and the tiling didnt make this easy

 

in the image below the top surface has a tiling of 4 by 4 with a vertical offset of 0.33, that image is 472x472 pixels

the bottom image is 1888x1888 pixels and has a tiling of 1x1 with no offset

mCasual

since DS doesnt have an image.paste() function, i guess i wont make a version of the script that works without imagemagick

shown here: selecting more than 1 material

now i only have to add a button, so you can tell where you installed imagemagick

someone please tell me

is it normal that i have to re-upload images twice in this forum, else they sometimes get corrupted or something?

 

mCasual

close to the finish line ...

 

to keep everything simple,

negative tiling values will be forced into positives

i.e.

if( tiling < 0 ) tiling = -tiling;

if a tiling setting is 0, it gets forced to 1

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Tiling offsets will be remapped to the 0 to 1 range,

but they'll remain functionally equivalent to your negative offsets

so you can use negative offsets and get faithful results

 

mCasual

it's a quick way to make pattern textures !

see i can zoom in on something, render it, apply this image to a plane, tile it

then i use the script and bam i got a tiled texture

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i was hesitating, but i think i'll make the output filename and type selectable by you

instead of having an automatic name and location

 

then i post the script and you can play with it Sunday !

 

mCasual

The Early-Nerd-Gets-The-Script version is out !

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts6/mcjtiletex

 

 

mCasual

there will be a second and final version today

 

it addresses the issue when using tiling of less than 1 - for example here the vertical tiling is 0.5

to make matters more complicated, OpenGL and 3Delight dont handle it the same way

i'll also make tests in DS4.8 ! and IRay ... and possibly Blender 

 

so it's clear mcjTexTile interprets the tiling for sub-1 tiling the same way 3delight does

left is hardware/preview, right i software render in DS3

mtl1

Oh wow, thank you so much. I can see so many uses for this script already ^_^

mCasual

so there will be a checkbox 

when the vertical tiling is less than 1 and this checkbox is checked, 

mcjTileTex will do the same mistake as the Daz Studio OpenGL preview does

for the record, here's the code for this

	if( wcbViewportAlike.checked )	{		if( matVT < 1 )		{			matVO = matVO - matVT;			if( matVO < 0 )			{				matVO += 1;			}		}	}

Indeed the behavior is the same in DS4.9 as DS3

i.e. for sub-unit vertical tiling

the preview shows one thing the 3delight render shows another

so the new checkbox will help!

 

note that the test testure is a public domain picture from 1001 nights

http://karenswhimsy.com/arabian-nights.htm

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but IRay treats sub-unit vertical tiling like the OpenGL viewport

i swear i didnt notice the black skirt visibility was off

and anyway she's wearing the mcjA3Bodycon and panties

 

mCasual

In the case of Blender Cycles

the scene exported from DS4.8 using mcjTeleBlender

Failed ... which is a problem i will look into soon 

the tiling didnt make the voyage from DS to Blender 

in fact i'll check right now if DS3 does it too

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but in a way, you could say mcjTileTex solves that type of problem !

since it integrates the tiling in the texture file

the lower left panel is the mcjTileTex texture ! and it's A-OK!

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oh i see the problem

in DS4.8, when DS's OBJ exporter exports the scene

it renames some materials to avoid material name "collisions"

mcjteleblender does transmit the tiling for "Plane_7", material "Default"

but in the .obj and the .mtl, calls the material  "Default_Plane_7"

 

... expect a TeleBlender3 (and 2 ) update soon ...

though TeleBlender under DS3 works fine, and since i'm quite often in the comfort and security of DS3, i didnt test/fix teleblender-DS4

even the "collect maps" options has issues under DS4 dang it

The Vic-20 and PET versions are a-OK

see? DS3 + TeleBlender --> Blender Cycles, No problem

 

 

 

mCasual

a pattern created start to finish under 5 minutes though it could be done in 30 seconds if you have the source image already

so today i plan to release the 2nd and final version of mcjTileTex aka mcjTexTile

you can download the attached images and use them how you please, the flower is a prop i made

( and may publish someday since apparently i didnt )

 

mCasual

a pattern created start to finish under 5 minutes though it could be done in 30 seconds if you have the source image already

 

mCasual

So version 2 is released!

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts6/mcjtiletex

 

 

it includes the option for the special case wherein the vertical tiling is below 1 tile

and it includes the tested/fixed version for DS1/DS2

now you may say, but but DS1 does not have tiling

ah HA! then you should look into my free shader for DS1/DS2 

it even has separate tiling for the bump map ( https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts2/mcjglossy )