Functions Overview
The heart of Texture Maker is the rendering engine with its vast arsenal of Functions. You can start to create a texture with a Generator function to render the basic material.
Refine the textures with the Filter, Color and Noise operations and achieve special effects with the various Distortion, Distraction and Bump functions.
Use the Brush functions to paint with your mouse or a tablet.
A special class is the Make Seamless functions group. Use them to render seamless textures from any image.
All engine functions are selected at the Function Selection Panel. They are sorted in the following groups:
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Draw solid objects, crop and clone. |
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Paint with different brush shapes, paste stickers, retouch the image. |
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Illumination, shadows and embossing. |
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Adjust brightness, hue, saturation etc. |
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Tilt, stretch and twist the textures pixels. |
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Displace the pixels by arbitrary patterns. |
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Standard operations like smooth, sharpen, high-pass etc. |
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Render basic patterns and materials like checker, wood, water, etc. |
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Several different techniques to removes seams at the edges. |
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Add pixel noise, scratches, spots and erosion. |
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Extend the applications features with external modules. |
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Functions that don't fit anywhere else. |
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Transformations like mirror, shift and rotate. |
