anyone have mosaic tile symbols ?

JimP

I'm looking for some mosaic tile symbols. Kinda like the ones used by the Roman Empire for their floors, or similar style symbols.

Thanks !

Vintyri

My standard answer. Go here:

http://www.dundjinni.com/forums/search.asp?KW=mosaic&SM=1&SI=TC&FM=8&OB=1

JimP

Some of it looks useful, but mostly they posted the resulting pictures. Not the tiles themselves.

I did get several files; all moss, all red, etc. that might work for parts of floor tiles. Not much of a color spread as in the pictures they posted there.

anomiecoalition

here's a few i've gotten from them...hope it helps...I should also add that i'm nearly 100% sure that they said these were free to use so long as you don't commercially distribute them.

anomiecoalition

here's a few i made with stuff from cgtextures (I use the term loosely - all i had to do was save the jpeg from the website and then open it with photoshop and save it as a .png.)

Ralf

Very nice work!

Joachim de Ravenbel

I made those using CC3 itself...

JimP

I'm looking for the individual tiles, one color per tile. So Joachim, pretty please, how did you do that ?

( Sorry, I'm a bit tired today, more than usual.)

Joachim de Ravenbel

Posted By: JimPSo Joachim, pretty please, how did you do that ?

Well, it was quite some time, but as far as I remember, here's the method :

1° draw a square (ie 200x200)
2° divide that square in any smaller tiles you'd like
3° offsert each line by a pleasing amount (5 perhaps, on a 200x200 square)
4° trim do intersection and line to path on each tile.
5° each different color on a new drawing sheet
6° if some tiles overlap the square, create a 3x3 array of squares, this ensures the seamless *tiling*
7° sheet effects : bevel, texture and blur on each
8° on a background, effect-free, sheet, fill the square with solid black
9° export as rectangular PNG, only the center square in case of an array. Above was 1025x1025.
10° CC3 usually adds a pixel in width and height so crop the picture to 1024x1024 (I use Photofiltre, free app).
11° I then use the PNG file as a bitmap fill style but you could easily make a symbol out of it as well

Does it help ? Would you like a more elaborate tutorial ?

JdR

JimP

I'll check into it next chance and I'll post back if I have problems.

Thank you.

I was reading a book on 'The Romans, Republic to Empire' and liked the mosaic floor tiles. I doubt I'll get that good, but I would like to add simple mosaics to some of my building maps.

Joachim de Ravenbel

Hi Jim,

Could you post a pic of a pattern you like ?

JdR

JimP

The floor tiles I liked in the book were animals on a slight contrasting background, animals by a stream with a few trees, and various geometric patterns.

While some were square tiles, others, according to the captions, were broken pottery in different colors. The broken pottery was then kept in place by various types of mortar.

I don't really have any pictures. I'll scan one in this weekend and upload it.