Hello,
I would like to ask you a question. How I can make a pattern with diagonal lines?
I tried in so many ways but when I'm inserting the pattern, the line are not continous (one line is not continued with another one).
I don't want to use any hatch macros , I just want to make a full color pattern.
I know that maybe it's a very simple thing but till now I didn't figure it out how to do it.
Thank's a lot for all your work on this forum!
Can you post a picture of what you are after?
Let's say that this is one of the patterns that I want to create
The problem comes when I'm inserting the pattern. The diagonal lines are not continous (are a little bit shifted).
The pattern you have is almost correct for a seamless tile, but not quite. I have added more tiles and coloured them so the joins are clearer ...
It looks to me as if your lines do not completely extend to the edge of the tile, which means that there will be a slight gap between adjacent tiles. But that might just be due to resampling in the forum and can probably be corrected.
The bigger problem is that it will be hard to get the lines to exactly match on opposite sides, which is needed for the tiles to be seamless.You have to take into account not just the position of the lines on opposite sides, but also their thickness. Yes, its possible but not as simple as it sounds.
The easier way ... using the method I suggested in the previous message:
First, design a similar tile with the lines vertical ...
I have only done this very roughly, but notice that I have made the two outer lines half the thickness of the inner lines. That means when they are tiled, their thickness becomes the same as the others ...
Vertical tiling is still not quite right ... the lines are now seamless, but the dots are not ...
To fix this, you will need to adjust the dots so that in each column the dot at the top and the dot at the bottom have the exact same horizontal position and a corresponding split -- for example, some could be 60% below and 60% above the join, others could be 20% below and 80% above.
Now you will see that you can use your tile as a 45 deree bitmap pattern:
It is almost seamless, apart from needing those ovrelaping dots corrected.
Thank you very much harryLondon for your efforts.
I will use your "tutorial"and see what comes out.
Thank you once again!