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I've been making my own textures for awile, but sometimes it takes too long, and things like bricks are difficult... do any of you know of some free program that generates seamless textures? like, you put a picture of some bricks into it, and out comes a completely seamless texture? If so, that would really help...

Well, The Gimp has a make seamless option. Unfortunately it seems to totally destroy brickwork. I've had to do them manually. It actually seems to have better results for any texture to be modded manualy.

I usually take the texture that I'm going to make seamless, and drag it over so it's only taking up one quadrant. Then I duplicate is three times and line them up to fill the other quadrants. I then flatten it down and rubber stamp out the cross that the old edges formed.

But if there is a better way, please let me know.

I just found this useful and free tool:

Texture Studio

That is a great tool! I had googled and tested it and was going to post here when I saw you already did.

Now I can finally make photo realistic textures (even though Cyan rarely uses them it seems)

If you're not looking to generate textures, but just preexisting ones that are free for use, I suggest the Genetica Texture Packs. 512*512 textures that tile amazingly well.

I just tried it and WOW! I didn't think a program so simple could do such good work.

I should run my water texture through this and see if it can get rid of the repetitiveness.

Woa! that makes it soooo much easier thx

What I do with bricks is this:

Make the far left side of the texture first. Then mirror and flip to the right side. Edit and build off that. This way it lines up almost perfectly >>

However, your way works better...

Genetica looks good, Paradox;
but $400 for Pro means you should be making money when you work it.
Thanks, just the same.

Edit:
And thanks Justin for asking this question; great responses.