Texture padding tool

[frigi]

When I create textures I sometimes don't have any/enough padding around the UV islands which isn't all that great for MipMapping as the seams might get exposed. This tool is able to extrude the island borders by a given value, nothing more and nothing less.
All the bakers out there offer this functionality but in situations where you don't want to or can't rebake this software might come in handy.

I'm not really a coder and I primarily made this for personal use so there is no fancy user interface or anything like that and I didn't bother about file formats. All the important information that you need in order to still be able to use it is in the Readme.txt. Don't worry it's not too complicated. ;)

Download (~300kb): TexPadder_v0.1.zip (http://frigi.designdevil.de/Progs/TexPadder_v0.1.zip)
(So far there is only a windows version available but all the important code is platform independent so if there's demand I can try to compile it for linux/mac as well.)


I hope this is also useful for some of you and please let me know if there are any problems.

Yours,
Fabian

[MyPeople]

hey frigal, that's nice there is a tool that does that, but in photoshop you should try the maximum and minimum under...offset? that's what i use at work if need to have something bleed another pixel or something.

[Blenderhead]

I always have this problem; must check out this tool! Thanks!

[frigi]

@MyPeople: Yes you're right, the minimum filter works just fine for small amounts of additional padding but with larger values I have found it to be too inaccurate as it basically deforms the whole image and doesn't just extrude the edges. That usually results in quite harsh transitions between the padding and the actual texture which I don't want.
It always depends on the situation which method fits best I'd say.

[jocz]

cool !
personnaly, I used to export my final ingame mesh in obj,
launch zbrush, load the mesh + my final texture(s),
flip texture if needed
then under texture menu, you got fix seam button (max 32 I believe)
that works pretty good, but I 'll check yours :approve:
thanks man !

[SinisterUrge]

xnormal has a padding option and you can use padding photoshop