PATTERN SHAPE TOOL

Custom Floors and Shapes

Use this to draw custom patterns shapes, like floor tiles or ground textures.

BASIC CONTROLS

Drawing a pattern

Select a pattern type and draw your shape by holding click.

The X pattern a the top left of the list is a plain color one.

Shapes

As for the Building Tool, you can choose from preset shapes or draw your own using freeform mode by clicking on the corresponding shapes.

In Freefrom shape, click then hold 🡅 SHIFT to bend your current line press DELETE or BACKSPACE to erase your last point..

Rectangle shape

Circle shape

Freeform shape (hold SHIFT to bend)

Edit Points

You can edit points of the drawn shape by clicking on the Edit Points button.

• To move a point, click on any point of the pattern and drag it where you want.

• To add a point, click anywhere on the pattern’s border.

• To remove a point, hover over it and hit DELETE or BACKSPACE.

• To exit that mode, click on one of the shapes above the button.

Layers

You can choose the layer of the pattern before drawing it. Click on the dropdown menu to change it.

Check out the Layers page for more info.

ADVANCED CONTROLS

Texture rotation

You can choose to change the rotation of a pattern before you place it.

You can rotate the shape itself in the Select Tool.

Color & Opacity

You can change the color and the opacity of a pattern before you place it. The small arrow on the right resets the color to default.

See the Custom Color Palette Chapter for more info.

Some patterns are only partly colorable, while some other (most of them) are fully colorable.

Outline

You can add an outline to your pattern before you place it. It might help turning your pattern into something that looks more like a regular object.

That button is at the very bottom of the tab

✅ Pro Tip: Making a hole in a Pattern

You can’t directly erase a part that is in the middle of a pattern, but a workaround is using the Edit Points mode to add points that will create a hole inside, starting from the sides and opening your way inside.

Draw a hole in a Pattern - Step 1 Draw a Pattern

Draw a hole in a Pattern - Step 2 In Edit Points Mode, create an opening

Draw a hole in a Pattern - Step 3 Add a few points to close that opening

Draw a hole in a Pattern - Step 4 Drag your points to close your Pattern

Video explanation

USEFUL INFO

📌 Good to know 📌

• Anything that can be done before placing a pattern (layer, type of pattern, color, outline, rotation…) can be changed afterwards in the Selection Tool.

• In the Selection Tool, you can also manually rotate and resize a Pattern.

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Related Mods

• Additionnal Search Options adds search options for patterns

• Color and Modify Things adds more options to recolor patterns and a blurred edges option

• Convert Object Into Pattern allows you to turn any object into a pattern so it can be cropped

• Make Pattern Hole automates the process of making a hole