Blender Secrets - (Updated) Sculpt Seamless Tiling Details for Normal or Displacement Maps

Seamlessly tiling normal or displacement maps are great for easily adding details to models. You can create these maps yourself by sculpting on a Plane, using the Tiling feature. (Note: this is an updated version of a previous video, which contained a mistake).

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Written by / voice: Jan van den Hemel
Video edited by: Tushar Ganesh

[yingbowang]

can't believe no plugins need, just default blender! thank you for this amazing method!
😀

[juhada]

wow. I have to try this, I didn't know this is possble! thanks Jan!

[p_walig]

This is going to save me so much time!
Thank you for sharing this information.

[mikeohc]

By far one of the best. I was pulling my hair out trying to make details

[FunDumb]

I need to learn all your secrets. Absolutely, positively!

[PurpleArkStudioYT]

Thank you!! This is a helpful one as the previous ones. Thank you!!

[EllieJ-ciqg]

You are an absolute life saver, thank you so much <3

[delysid]

Thanks brtoher very cool trick i love ur videos.. Very brief and to the point

[baharerten]

wow always amazing new learnings ...thanks a lot

[GGPGamesAndy]

Oh man, I had thought of this kind of process (at least trying to render out the normals) a while back but never got to test it, good to see an actual end-to-end process is possible, I wonder if this can be used with cgmatter's pixelization workflow 🤔

[nisbahmumtaz]

not gonna lie, i was more interested in the mask + mesh filter scaling step in generating a pretty pattern, so i was glad you included that too!

[gibrman]

I love all of this tutorials, that just tell you to do something and won't tell you how to do it

[Norbyyyyy]

unfortunately the resulting texture not tiling well at all if i load the exported image to photoshop and offsetting the image. Wondering why it tiles in blender but not if i export it?

[paolorenzoveluz]

wow, thank you.
just wow...
wow.
wait, that's many wow.

wow

[TheKevphil]

Can I draw directly on an object, on a new normal or disp map?

[Wenedi]

What the actual hell. You can turn on the Normal Map material and save the normal texture without baking?!?!?

What is this sorcery 🤯

[sobreaver]

I feel guilty having access to such great Blender Secrets :P

[gqij]

How can we convert camera view to an alpha brush
For example scupt a finger nail, convert it to alpha brush
And use that brush for making other nails in fingers

[jhonysteak]

I'm looking for something similar but complete, like for example transposing a drawing on a normal or even a basecolor.

If you have good links send them!

[t.designer]

Hi in my displacement have lots of pixsels how can i remove it