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Quote: Originally posted by nightstar
I love these floors, can I ask how you make them seamless? I have tried so many times to make floors but you can always see the lines.
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I could give you a better answer if I knew your specific issue. I've made a bit of a diagram though to list a few tricks that I use (and my skill level is by no means high). These are useful if you start out with an image that has a repeating pattern but for whatever reason (mine looked like it was a real photo) it is not actually seamless. These might be things you already know though!
On the left is the image I started out with.
1- If you have issues with things that will end up on the edge of your tile, you can select a part of the pattern that needs to be repeated, copy it, flip it, and paste it on the other side of the tile.
2- It helps a lot to get rid of any marks that are not part of the actual pattern, like those cracks in the stones. This way they will not attract attention when tiled and make the repeat obvious. (Not quite an issue with seamlessness, but anyway..)
3- Even if you have a repeating pattern, you can cut out a single piece of it, copy it, and replace other pieces to make it much more uniform and maybe even solve issues with seams. In this picture I copied 1 stone over, but if I were making a game tile that had, say, a 2x2 stone pattern on it, I would fix any blemishes on 1 stone and paste that stone in the 3 spots around it. If you join them up well, this can fix any issues with seams on the inside of your image- leaving just the edges to go!
4- This tile has a bit extra on the left side, so I would zoom in until I can estimate the columns of pixels fairly well and crop it little by little, save it in a pretty small size, and set as my desktop background (tiled) until there are no issues with seams from the edges of this image.
If you are making a tile from scratch, there is a feature called "Offset" in Photoshop (might be similar things in other editing programs) which lets you shift the sides of your image so that you see the gap or seam they make and play around with that.