create your own spherical maps

[Kirl]

It's quite simple to make a seamless texture really (depends on the picture of course) if you use a simple method.

Just put the picture you want to make seamless in photoshop and copy it so that you have four the same in total. Order them like 2X2 and make a border the same size as the original picture and place it in the middle of the four copy's.

Now just edit the edges within that border to make them seamless and there you have it...!

How to make a seamless texture in a nutshell.... :thumbsup:

[kiwi]

I think the displacment filter {PS} would give you the best results for a seamless spherical map :)



Actually I saw a tute just recently for that,let me have a nosey and get back to you :)




Stu.

[kiwi]

Sorry I cant find it Marcom :rolleyes: ,however what you are looking for is a Photoshop tute on making a sphere basically,which should give you the info needed to build a spherical map as well using the displacment filter :)



Stu.

[marcom]

thanks kiwi
i will look for that.


cheers
marcom

[kiwi]

Ooops sorry make that the "Polar coordinates filter" :hmm: ...you could probably do it with the displacment filter but it would be a real pain to work it all out.



Stu.

[marcom]

hmmm...
guess where i found a decent tutorial...

http://www.maxoncomputer.com/tutorial_detail.asp?tutorialID=54&site=

ok, i will go back to my bookshelf and pick up the photoshop book...

marcom

[AdamT]

Use Panorama Tools--it's the best by far for this sort of thing:
http://www.path.unimelb.edu.au/~dersch/

You might want to check this out too:
http://www.ptgui.com/

[zeromancer1972]

i use this amazing tool - the best i've ever seen for texture, tiles etc.

TextureMaker (http://i-tex.de/)

worth every buck! :buttrock:

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