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Now finally a new improved version of the seamless textureprogram PixPlant has been released in a 2.0 version. Check the website for more info what new stuff been added to it.

http://www.pixplant.com/

/ Max

Hmm...that look interesting
BTW, what's the difference between PixPlant and CrazyBump???

The main difference would be that PixPlant can generate seamless textures from photos. Crazybump is more of a program for generating bumpmaps, displacementmaps, normalmaps and specularmaps with. And now when PixPlant 2.0 can do pretty much the same stuff all within the same program, there's no real need for Crazybump anymore.

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Max, have you used Imagesynth 2? Any differences there?

Yes i have used it Bubba and i was not that satisfied with how it generated seamless textures it produces blocks and visible seams between the small tiles when it shuffles around the parts of the textures to produce a seamless map. I nagged about the problem to Lux when they first release came out but it seems they didn't fix it for ImageSynth 2. That's why i went for PixPlant instead as it can produce much better seamless maps even from crappy looking sourceimages. Even if those sourceimages are in a perspective.

Some UI screenshots i just grabbed from PixPlant 2.0 to show the creation of a seamless texture and all it's maps. Click them to view fullres.



This is the photo i found on Google Images and used as a source for the texture generation.
http://stonewall.nist.gov/CONTENT/wall199c.jpg

And a testrender with Maxwell using the texture i extracted and generated in the above images.


/ Max

Wow, that looks so much cooler! Thanks! I'm definately going to check it out.

Looks great! Thanks Max.

Wow, I'm buying this thing tonight! Thanks for the proof that it works Max. Looks great.

You're welcome Bubba, Fernando and JC i think it's well worth the money, it rescued me when some crazy seamless textures had to be created. One recent example is the rusty metals i recently showed here a while ago, the seamless editions were generated with PixPlant 1.0. Btw, there's also a Photoshop plugin, you can choose either the standalone or the plugin.

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Now that's what i call new features thanks maxximus, Imagesynth my ass. Well at list was just $99. I lost

Does it get rid of uneven lighting when it makes the seamless texture also? I tried imagesynth and was not impressed. I could do better and faster in photoshop manually using the filter offset and clone stamp.

One thing I liked about Imagesynth 2 is that it was multi-threaded. Is Pixplant?

You're welcome yanada

Eric: Yes it has a "Equalize Lighting" slider you can adjust to even out the lighting in a texture. See the example image below. It can probably be done just as easy and fast in PS, i have no doubt about that.

Bubba: I just checked and it looks like it's not multithreaded (yet). you can see the example image below where i test the threading.

Equalize lighting


Threading test


/ Max

So is the $175.00 with or without the 25% promo pricing ? anyone know ?


btw .. Nice one Max.

Good question, i actually don't know try using the online form on the site to drop them a question to ask them about the discout price thingy.

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