Deformation with scales or hexagon textures

[ilusiondigital]

Hi zfriends,

I supose there is no possible to create this type of scales or hexagon ‘cells’ textures (see attached image) using a procedural algorith using zbrush.

Anybody know if its possible to use a method to project alphas (seamless) using a brush… or any trick to repeat the texture uniformly.

Using the typical alpha projection DragRec manually is so hard to weld the scales properly.

Many thanks

Victor Marin

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The same way he did.

unwrap the mesh, create a tiling alpha.
apply this as a texture and repeat it.
Mask areas you don’t want
use deformations to move the bump.