Cube Texture Repeating Tile

[Egg Bramhill]

Here's one along the same lines as the weave texture file I posted earlier.

[gwpriester]

Fun.

[bcire68]

As with many things in Xara's products, there is more than one way to skin a cat. Here is a mini-tut on how to get a similar effect with a vector fill.



Eric

[Egg Bramhill]

Yes, agree Eric, there's always several ways to achieve something in Xara. Nice alternative

[Rik]

Egg: That's a very nice gift.

Eric: I thought I would have a bit of a play with your method. You can get a pretty good result.
Though, this method does not allow a flat fill on the separate sides. But, it's an excellent mothod to share.

[bcire68]

Thanks, Rik. It all depends on the effect that you are after of course but I thought it worth mentioning.

I'm surprised that Gary hasn't yet mentioned that these are natural stereograms.

[Egg Bramhill]

Strangley enough I received a mail-shot from istock which carried a very similar but more complicated 3D cube tile. It had numerous fill colours for the cubes as well as a fairly complex offset.

I thought I'd try to replicate it in Xara.

Here are my results:

The left image is of a numerous colour fill, the right is of a "type" of greyscale fill. All are editable.

Also attached is a screengrab of the istock image.

I've also attached the xar files but editing them is not for novices.

[Big Frank]

Off-topic but anyway, I stopped using iStock on principle when it was bought out by Getty. Anything that is Getty images is anathema and if I have to search high and low for an alternative to a Getty image, I will. Sometimes if you stand for nothing you will settle for anything.

Back on-topic, I like how you reproduced that, Egg