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September 30, 2011
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P: Mirror Paint/Symmetric/Seamless Tile Paint Function

  • September 30, 2011
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Photoshop could use a interactive Mirror Paint and Seamless edge/border painting function. Painter has had this feature for about 10 years now.

165 replies

Inspiring
December 3, 2011
So toroidal wraparound is the most important case to you?
Don't many games also used reflective wrapping (as when using a quarter of a texture), and multiple angle reflective mapping (as when using a sixth or eighth of a "round" texture)?
And sheared mappings (like bricks)?
What about other planar mappings (like quilt patterns you found in the Terrazo plug-in)?
Inspiring
December 3, 2011
sooo many people want this
Participating Frequently
December 3, 2011
The ability to have 8 instances of the image tiling (with the canvass rotation feature still working) would be a tool every game texture illustrator would install instantly.

The tool must also include "mirror" feature for being able to symmetrically paint a face. Infact if you could define a "work area" perhaps using slices that would be perfect since you could work on a section of a 512 image that has 1/2 of a face
Inspiring
December 3, 2011
Ideally, I'd like to be able to draw a border with a direction and another border with a direction.

So painting across one of them would paint over into the next. And would scale the brush according to the scale ratio of the borders.

So a painting a seamless tiling texture would essentially be two sets of these - automatically placed at the edges of the image.
Inspiring
December 3, 2011
Excuse me while I say, DO WANT!
Inspiring
December 3, 2011
Thanks - that's the kind of details we need to convince product managers.
dav3punkAuthor
Participating Frequently
December 3, 2011
except this has nothing to do with what we are talking about, and not what we are asking for. 😛
dav3punkAuthor
Participating Frequently
December 3, 2011
agreed. Its kinda ridiculous that Photoshop does not have this feature. I have used paint programs from 1985 that have a mirror/seamless tile paint feature. Painter has also had this feature for years as well. Adobe should review other software packages and features that are successful. Also 3D is NOT Adobes strong point.
Inspiring
December 3, 2011
Agree with everyone on here. It was crazy when lloyd posted this on Polycount and people were jumping all over the idea.
Inspiring
December 3, 2011
Yes, I agree with everyone on here, I too would love to see this feature.

Also, as Valdemar said, Polycount has very quickly taken on this idea and are all for it.

I feel these user votes are one of the most important thing Adobe can do to add the proper features. Autodesk has started doing this for 3DS Max, and it definitely helped make 2012 its best version yet because of it.