Flagstone - Surface Texture & Fill pattern

[Anonymous]

There is an old discussion about using Cultured Stone's StoneCad for textures
Purchase SYmbol Fill

I am often using the legacy Textures for my ArchCAD Sufaces from previous AC releases. One is from a folder labeled "Textures" and the other from a folder labeled "Textures JPG" (See Attachment)

Many times I can not find what I am looking for in the Surface Catalog 18.lcf or ever find anything in the BIMComponents area.

Also I am often looking for tile/pavers that is arranged in a Roman, Versai or Random pattern.

I often have my own pictures, but have not been successful making surface textures from those picture. Is there a tutorial anyone knows of?
Or to use images found on Google (Like Flagstone search to create textures?

[Anonymous]

For a Flagstone Quartz walkway I again found a texture in the legacy "Textures JPG>Stones>Stone 37A.jpg".

For a flooring I may try to upload the image file from Cultured Stone site

Image file - it does not look like an image that would repeat well, but we will see.

[Anonymous]

Checking out stonecad.com/. They list Seamless JPGs

[Ralph Wessel]

Jay wrote:
I often have my own pictures, but have not been successful making surface textures from those picture. Is there a tutorial anyone knows of?

I posted one here.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the tip Ralph. As more of a Structural designer, I have never been much of a Photoshop user (seem to be in the minority I would expect).
So not owning Photoshop I was looking into Seamless image generators.

Does anyone have any recommendations?

I will create a new post for Comments-
Seamless Texture Generators

[Ralph Wessel]

Jay wrote:
As more of a Structural designer, I have never been much of a Photoshop user (seem to be in the minority I would expect).
So not owning Photoshop I was looking into Seamless image generators

In case you're ever interested in giving it a go, it isn't necessary to splash out for Photoshop. There are plenty of alternatives that will serve for the majority of cases, e.g. I use Pixelmator. With a bit of practice, you'll outdo the automated texture generators.

[Aaron Bourgoin]

Page 107-ff. of Dwight Atkinson's Lightworks book is as relevant on the subject today as it was when he published 10 years ago.

[Anonymous]

Ralph wrote:
In case you're ever interested in giving it a go, it isn't necessary to splash out for Photoshop. There are plenty of alternatives that will serve for the majority of cases, e.g. I use Pixelmator. With a bit of practice, you'll outdo the automated texture generators.

My issue is I am a lowly PC user.

[Anonymous]

Jay wrote:

Ralph wrote:
In case you're ever interested in giving it a go, it isn't necessary to splash out for Photoshop. There are plenty of alternatives that will serve for the majority of cases, e.g. I use Pixelmator. With a bit of practice, you'll outdo the automated texture generators.

My issue is I am a lowly PC user.

Some info about pixelmator from my experience: I've used it. Great little app, though I usually use it for quick edits or redlines these days, because it fires up in no time flat. While I could adjust my painting style to accommodate to no pressure sensitive opacity its inability to cope with having its panels on different screens really irked me after a while. I also tried aurora for its price as an pixelmator alternative

[Ralph Wessel]

Jorge wrote:
Some info about pixelmator from my experience: I've used it. Great little app, though I usually use it for quick edits or redlines these days, because it fires up in no time flat. While I could adjust my painting style to accommodate to no pressure sensitive opacity its inability to cope with having its panels on different screens really irked me after a while. I also tried aurora for its price as an pixelmator alternative

I wouldn't describe Pixelmator as a painting/art application, but I think the pressure-sensitivity issue has been addressed in more recent versions. I'd certainly recommend it for the application addressed by this topic, i.e. making tiled surface textures.

There are plenty of great alternatives in the same price bracket. I'm currently testing Affinity Photo too, and that's looking very promising.