Tile
type: photoshop script
file: sdvTile.jsx
version: 1.0
date: 23 Nov 2012
photoshop: CS5+
file: sdvTile.jsx
version: 1.0
date: 23 Nov 2012
photoshop: CS5+
This Photoshop script creates a tiled version of your image. It does nothing fancy. It only tiles the image. The most basic use of this script is to see if a texture is seamless. The other reason why I created this script was because I needed a way to do a tileable blur. This is something that is available in Gimp, but I have not yet seen it in Photoshop. When you blur an image in Photoshop it does not take into account the pixels that are on the opposite side. With textures that are supposed to tile this can produce visible artifacts on the edges.
XformUV is a tool for editing UVs with numerical precision. It includes functions such as move, rotate, scale, align, stack and orient UVs.
The move tool is the main reason why I created this script. I needed a method of quickly giving UVs an offset of 1. This is useful for temporarily moving UVs out of the way or for moving overlapping UVs out of the 0-1 range. Overlapping UVs can result in artifacts when baking textures (shadow maps, occlusion, 3d textures, normal maps). 
This script upgrades Maya’s auto projection method from a maximum of 12 planes to 31 planes. That is a projection plane at every 30°. This results in less distortion on the uvs. I mainly use this method as a starting point for mapping mechanical / hard surface objects where unfold uvs produces a less desirable result.
With this tool you can align UV shells. The script will automatically expand your uv selection to uv shells.
This script rotates each uv shell in your selection so that its bounding box is as small as possible. With most shells this results in a straight orientation.
