AutoTile vs KPT's Seam Welder
and Mirroring
At left, is the original image used to
create the different tileable
patterns shown below.
KPT's Seam Welder makes a pattern tileable by blending the image borders
into each other. The result is a general fuzziness around the edges, and
very often, a noticeable amount of "ghost" images where parts of images
seem to be superimoposed on top of each other. See how
well the Seam Welder image tiles
Mirroring is a trick sometimes employed in simulators when a pattern
just doesn't tile, or when the pattern artist doesn't want to spend
the time to make it tile. The problem with mirroring is that a
kaleidoscope effect often results. Also, a larger 2x2 pattern must
be created in order to make the image tile.
This requires four times more texture memory or changing the simulator
to display alternating patterns in a different alignment.
See how well the Mirroring technique works
Finally, the AutoTile Tool! AutoTile works by making use of the extra image
data in the original image. It scours the image data to find pieces that can
be reconstructed in the best possible way so that tiling is seamless, without
adding "fuzziness", "ghost images" or a kaleidoscope effect. See
how well the AutoTile pattern tiles
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