[oz42]

I've made a few posts in Off-Topic about FREE graphics utils and thought I'd collect them all here. I'm sure there are many more so please add to the list and maybe we'll end up with a categorised directory?

Seamless Textures

Water Caustics - http://www.lysator.liu.se/~kand/caustics/
- creates animated seamless textures of water caustics for texture or bump maps.

Bricks - http://www.brick.com/md/md2.swf
- creates seamless brick walls. You can add different horizontal courses, change individual bricks, etc.

Bricks 'n' Tiles - http://www.3d-rekonstruktionen.de/bricksntiles/
- another great seamless brick generator, this time from photo reference (thanks to kizo for this one)

Seamless checker - http://www.texturemaker.com/download.php (Texture Discovery, half way down)
- browse a directory and click on a file to see it fill the screen to check whether it's a non-repeating pattern.

Mosaic tiles - http://www.modwalls.com/blender/modWalls_blender.html (suggested by andrebaros, thanks)
- great online utils for creating multicoloured mosaic tile sheets

Texture viewer - http://www.texturemaker.com/download.php
- another one from the guys at TextureMaker. Part of the full program (which is free for non-commercial use) allows you to view your texture (either one created in TextureMaker or any image on your hard drive) as it would be mapped on an object. Left drag rotates this small scene, right click moves the light source and you can pick from sphere, cube, cylinder, etc.! Check whether it repeats with the above util then see how it looks with this one - great!


Wood Workshop - http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/ww_overview.htm
- a seamless wood texture maker (thanks, hdesbois)

MaPZone - http://www.mapzoneeditor.com/
- a node based procedural texture maker, complete with 3D viewer (thanks numerobis)


Bump / Normal Maps

3D OpenGL bump map viewer - can't find the download page but was part of MaP|Zone (FREE) from http://www.allegorithmic.dreamhosters.c ... E=PRODUCTS
- this was a great bump map viewer plugin for Photoshop. Juct click on the filter and view your image as a bump map. Left drag rotates the small plane and height and size sliders alter the amount / scale of bump. This image shows what I mean. If any can track it down pm me, thanks.

[looks like it may be back - see MaPZone above]

Normal map creator from nVidia - http://developer.nvidia.com/object/phot ... ugins.html
- another plugin for Photoshop that will create a normal map from your image.

[sandykoufax]

Thank you so much, oz.

[d7mcfc]

The brick one is great!

Thanks for that. It will be more useful to me than you can imagine!

[jurX]

...yo,...thX

[x_site]

yes mapzone is no more.... i asked around some weeks back with no luck....
there's no more download links available and i lost my version with my hard drive... been searching ever since

[oz42]

x_site - there seems to be something called MaP|Zone Free (1.7.221) I registered and logged in and this was still available, don't know whether it includes MaP|View 3D or not as I already have MaP|Zone 1.7.228 and didn't want to overwrite it!

[hdesbois]

Thanks.
Another one for wood:
http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/ww_overview.htm


HD

[x_site]

thanks oz... i'll give it another try.

[DrMerman]

Thanks mate, these look really useful

[Robur]

Thanks OZ,

The MaP|Zone Free looks really useful.... it must be out there somewhere..... if anyone finds it... yell

Cheers

[Xlars]

Thank you very much

[numerobis]

MaPZone 2.5 is now downloadable for free

http://www.mapzoneeditor.com/index.php?PAGE=HOME

[devista]

normal maps
http://www.crazybump.com/beta/download.html

saludos
luis

[NicoR44]

Thanks Luis

[Fernando Tella]

Nice program. Gracias Luis.