Substance Designer • Wang Tiles

Overview

Generate amazing seamless maze-like images with this Substance Designer (2018.3.x) node.

Wang tiles essentially consist of a set of predefined square tiles, that can be arranged side by side in a rectangular grid, where all edges of each tile must their neighbor's.

With a carefully designed set of tiles, it is possible to produce a large image without any visual discontinuities.

How To Use

This package comes with 2 nodes :

Wang Tiles

This node generates a seamless tiling image from any  input. Simply plug-in a 2-Edge Wang tileset and modify the node's parameters to get the desired result.

You can also input a custom grayscale image (seed) that will influence which tiles are selected by the node.

Wang Tilesets

This node contains 8 Sample Tilesets that were created to work with the Wang Tiles node. They have different visual styles, but all work the same way.

You can edit and study them in order to create your own tilesets.

Links

Great resource to learn about Wang Tiles

Wikipedia