Two Great Gimp Texture Plugins

Published by Bart on March 4th, 2006 in Toolbox

Texturizer Here are two great plugins that will help you make textures with the Gimp: Texturize and Resynthesizer.

Texturize creates tilable textures:

Imagine that you have an image with a small sample of a texture. If you want to generate a larger texture with this small image, you could just copy-paste it, and put the copies (or "patches") one next to another, but that wouldn't produce a very good result, since the right (or top) part of the image usually doesn't correspond to its left (or bottom) part, when two copies of the image are assembled.

A few images are indeed designed to be copy-pasted one next to another and still look natural, but the result is usually periodic and very monotonous (it looks like wallpaper — the one on your walls, not the one on your computer desktop!).

Texturize lets you actually create tileable textures (which is great for game design).

Resynthesizer is a bit more complex;

Resynthesizer is a Gimp plug-in for texture synthesis. Given a sample of a texture, it can create more of that texture. This has a surprising number of uses:

Creating more of a texture (including creation of tileable textures)
Removing objects from images (great for touching up photos)
Creating themed images (such as the Resynthesizer logo above)

I recommend you check out the websites for some samples. Thanks to Mike Edwards for pointing these out on Elysiun.

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13 Responses to “Two Great Gimp Texture Plugins”

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1 lox_federico Mar 4th, 2006 at 11:39 am

Finally some really usefull plugins other than webotine :-D

Cannot wait for Gimo 2.3.8
2 Pretty Meshed Up Mar 4th, 2006 at 4:32 pm

Great links. Thanks.
3 Digital FX Artist Mar 5th, 2006 at 1:08 am

In the not yet released version of blender, they have introduced nodes. I wanted to know if it is possible to make a Gimp node. This would allow you to use any effect and/or image manipulation tool on textures in blender.
4 Claws Mar 5th, 2006 at 2:07 am

Well I could see myself using the texturizer alot
5 lightning2911 Mar 6th, 2006 at 8:47 am

great article! i have known the resynthesizer but am glad i found the texturizer.

also for windows users in the texturizer link go for the michael schumacher link as he seems to be one of the few to create compiled version of gimp plugins for windows. there i have finally found the long time looked for plasma2 for windows plugin

great articles here. read them every day! :-)
6 Bmud Mar 6th, 2006 at 5:20 pm

I got a wonderful glimpse of the Resynthesizer when Orange was pleading for CC photos. The texture generator in Photoshop is weak IMO by comparison, and I'm quite pleased that there are a few plugins that make the GIMP have the upper hand. The only experience I've had with a GIMP plugin previously is the Verse connectivity one by Eskil & friends, but it failed to ever work on Windows…

Anyhow, more power to the realtime engine people.

I did notice that on the Texturize site, the author states that the plugin doesn't do well with large changes in lightness over the photograph. Well, look no further than "The Power of the High Pass Filter", one of the best & most useful texture tutorials of all time.

Found online here http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20010523/hajba_01.htm
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Its not quite the same as the original article, which has been offline for a few years, but it gives you the same info. So, with the high pass knowledge, and a super-great texture generation plugin, and a regular stamping tool, you've got the power to texture the world! :D
7 spiderworm Mar 6th, 2006 at 6:05 pm

I tested the texturizer plugin… First time I've cracked open the Gimp for anything in a long time, and boy was I impressed!

Great work to those developers and I look forward to using it extensively.
8 Digital FX Artist Mar 6th, 2006 at 8:05 pm

Just checking again on the possiblity of having a GIMP node in blender???
(See above post)
9 Alexander Ewering Jun 2nd, 2006 at 10:59 pm

As far as I can tell, it just tiles the source image with a certain overlap area where it applies a smooth fade. That's not a lot better than the integrated Map->Make Seamless filter…
10 Alexander Ewering Jun 2nd, 2006 at 11:06 pm

Actually, it seems to place the new images randomly… ok, that's not so bad :)
11 Doesnt matter wat my name is Jul 26th, 2006 at 8:29 am

Im with Alexander on that… wooot !!!!!! oh btw, the name is fake, the email is fake, and the website just might be fake :-)

But yea, I like the new plugins much.
12 Andrea Nov 13th, 2008 at 10:08 am

I know this is an old post, but yesterday I was looking for something like that and I've found this page.
Then, keeping wondering around, I've found somewhere a plugin to remove gradients from images. This plugin I'm quite sure was made from the same guy of Texturize or Resynthesizer, but I can't manage to find it again (when I've found this plugin I didn't think I would have need it, but now I need it :) ).

Anyone here can help me to find this plugin? It "just" remove gradients from images (e.g.: a wall where the light degrade vertically).

Thanks in advance.

Andrea