Texture Tiling In Photoshop Using Modern Methods:

Get a map setup that looks the way you want it to, but doesn't tile
 Use 3D > New Tiled Painting

Set your image size to 300% (Image > Image Size)
 we do this because it is a 3x3 tile we're looking at

To go into the pretiled image, double click on the layer (underneath "Diffuse")
 This will take you inside the texture where you can edit it untiled
 save and close to go back to the tiled version (ctrl+s then ctrl+w)


	
	
 

Useful Maya Grid Settings:
Display > Grid Options
512
16
1


	
	
	

test

Double click the skybox mesh in the scene
  Static Mesh Actor
    Static Mesh Component
      Override Lightmap Res:  on
      Override Lightmap Res:  0   (zero, this means vertex lit or no light)
    Lighting
      Cast Shadows: off
       




Tiling Content in Photoshop using 3D Layers:
By doing so we can see the tiling in real time

Main menu
  3D
    New tiled painting

Blending In The Material Editor

Linear Interpolate to blend textures/colors:
Create a constant3 (color)
create a texture (drag a texture in)
create a constant
create a linear interpolate

linear interpolate
  A = Color
  B = Texture.color
  Alpha = Constant

change the constant to adjust the blend

http://www.hourences.com/tutorials/



use a very low res spec texture multiplied with a high res texture 
(essentially, the low res one acts as a mask)



put an additional channel in the normal map,
strip it out, use it for something else,
and use derive normal to get the channel back



multiply a channel by itself (square it)
and then give a level effect, to get a specular map from diffuse