Hello, I’m working for a videogame company, making 2D games for cellular phones, Nintendo DS and PSP. Overall my job consists of doing very small seamless patterns. It varies between 16x16 pixel and 64x64 pixels. So far I use the common technique; I’m using the offset filter, and then I save the image as a pattern, and finally fill another image with the pattern. But well… this approach becomes very annoying and time consuming when you want to test result at every 5 seconds… If at least we could very a filled map while working with the offset and making modification… Because it doesn’t mean a pattern is seamless that it’s pleasant for the eyes. So I tried to create the following action: select all -> create pattern -> create new 500x500 images -> fill with pattern… But the problem here is that I didn’t find a way to fill with the very last saved pattern… I’m really hopeless with this situation. Anyone could give me some good advices? Thanks!!

After you make this action that you mentioned, if you expand the Fill command, you will see under it an entry with something like Pattern ID: "68b965db...."
and this is what causes your problem, cause although a new pattern is defined each time the action is played, it is hardcoded to use that ID of the first pattern that you started with everytime. I don't see any "smart" way in making the action to dynamically update the Pattern ID value with that of the new defined one.

One way to come round this problem would be to force the action to bring up the Fill options window, so you decide what pattern to use each time.
To do this just press the icon which is left to the Fill command entry (within you action) and run the action again.

Another option would be to write a small JS script to handle the whole thing and I could be able to help you with that, just let me know.


[Edited by - Segmoria on February 23, 2007 9:30:00 AM]