Creating tileable patterns can involve a lot of tedious tracing and tweaking to get them to tile seamlessly. This tutorial describes a method of automating the process of creating flawlessly tiling, patterns using GIMP, Inkscape and Blender to render seamless tiles.

Although most scripts that run from Blender – either included when you install the application or 3rd party scripts created or downloaded – don’t necessarily need the Python API to be installed, you may, during the course of using Blender 3D, find that a number of the more ‘complex’ Python *.py scripts don’t run reporting various ‘runtime’ errors.

This tutorial discusses how to set up the Python path under Windows OS.