Made some Texture assets (4k)

[Taxicab Messiah]

The procedural textures are nice but they are fixed on the canvas..as you expand a procedural texture the pattern wont shift only move outward.  I wanted some that I could more easily manipulate. I layered multiple textures onto each other in interesting ways using blend modes and then rasterized the result to save as an asset.  So I now have a group of 9 rasterized .png "procedural textures".  They are really interesting to use blended into other images I'm finding.  Below is the set I made. (example image below of image + texture turned into final background)

PNG Textures.zip

[Ldina]

Actually, you can move procedural textures around the canvas by using “relative” x and y coordinates (rx and ry) in the formulas. This allows you to reposition ant texture you care ate as desired.

[Taxicab Messiah]

5 minutes ago, Ldina said:

Actually, you can move procedural textures around the canvas vy using “relative” x and y coordinates (rx and ry) in the formulas. This allows you to reposition ant texture you care ate as desired.

Right, I should specify that you can't manipulate procedural textures without knowledge of how to manipulate the formula.  These are able to be moved inside the program in standard ways on the fly.

[Ldina]

Yup, PT filters aren't exactly intuitive or well documented. 

[Taxicab Messiah]

Textures are cool.

[FoTenX]

These are great, thank you!.
Total newby at this so apologies for the naive question. Is there some way to save these assets to any of the Afinity programs, or is it just drag them in when needed?

[Taxicab Messiah]

Yes you use the assets panel.  If you don't see it on your program just go into the settings on top and check the "assets" feature.  Then you will be able to add categories and dump images into those categories and even export entire categories so you can load them into another instance of the program on another PC.

[FoTenX]

7 hours ago, Taxicab Messiah said:

Yes you use the assets panel.  If you don't see it on your program just go into the settings on top and check the "assets" feature.  Then you will be able to add categories and dump images into those categories and even export entire categories so you can load them into another instance of the program on another PC.

Hmm, not working for me. I've ticked "Assets" under Window then I select "Import Assets". I navigate to the dowload folder where I extracted the contents of the Zip file earlier. I can see the folders while I'm trying to find the what to attach, but as soon as I go lower than the folder nothing appears. 

[Taxicab Messiah]

2 minutes ago, FoTenX said:

Hmm, not working for me. I've ticked "Assets" under Window then I select "Import Assets". I navigate to the dowload folder where I extracted the contents of the Zip file earlier. I can see the folders while I'm trying to find the what to attach, but as soon as I go lower than the folder nothing appears. 

"import assets" is for importing a unique file with the .afassets suffix.  You can create these by exporting your current assets.  To add raw assets in standard image formats like png you drag and drop them into the assets panel directly from your desktop.

[FoTenX]

9 minutes ago, Taxicab Messiah said:

"import assets" is for importing a unique file with the .afassets suffix.  You can create these by exporting your current assets.  To add raw assets in standard image formats like png you drag and drop them into the assets panel directly from your desktop.

Thank you so much for your patience. Yes, that worked. Thank you!

[Alfred]

On 6/1/2025 at 9:55 PM, Ldina said:

Actually, you can move procedural textures around the canvas by using “relative” x and y coordinates (rx and ry) in the formulas. This allows you to reposition ant texture you care ate as desired.

I wouldn’t care to eat ant textures, but thanks for the tip!