Design Pro on the Diagonal Advice

[JessieOfSeacowBay]

Hi Y'all! Like a lot of people, I think, I was very excited for the new design features and purchased them straight away. I got to work on a ducky umbrella like I said I would and so far, I'm pretty happy with it. Unfortunately, I would like the duck design on every panel of the umbrella and I am having the toughest time getting it to translate on to the diagonal. I could probably eventually it (or close enough) with trial and error, but that's trial and error on FOUR panels. If anyone has any tips or ideas on what to do to make this go faster and easier, I would appreciate it!

 

[Pyoopi]

If you could take a screenshot of the design in the editor, I can try to help you out. got bazinga'd.

 

[Mick]

I played around with this a little last night and I did manage to copy your design to mess with it (sorry!):

I then looked back at the thread and saw that you asked for tips, not designs, oops. Honestly, I don't have many tips to give. Even though I have many hours of practice in the pattern editor, I still worked mostly by trial and error (like I do with other digital art, really).

It does help that you only need to design three of the panels. If you manage to get the bottom half right, the top one is just rotational symmetry and you can copy the design over. In the image below, panels 1 and 3 are the same between the top and bottom half, just rotated. So you don't need to go through this pain four times - only two.

The bad news is that you'll have to do this by hand, pixel by pixel. There's no trick in the editor that does that for you and the horizontal symmetry tool on the ZR button is entirely useless for this.

A last tip is to look mostly at the model in the bottom left corner while making your changes. Because trying to guess where the pixels "should" be usually just leaves me frustrated.

 

[JessieOfSeacowBay]

I played around with this a little last night and I did manage to copy your design to mess with it (sorry!):

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I then looked back at the thread and saw that you asked for tips, not designs, oops. Honestly, I don't have many tips to give. Even though I have many hours of practice in the pattern editor, I still worked mostly by trial and error (like I do with other digital art, really).

It does help that you only need to design three of the panels. If you manage to get the bottom half right, the top one is just rotational symmetry and you can copy the design over. In the image below, panels 1 and 3 are the same between the top and bottom half, just rotated. So you don't need to go through this pain four times - only two.

The bad news is that you'll have to do this by hand, pixel by pixel. There's no trick in the editor that does that for you and the horizontal symmetry tool on the ZR button is entirely useless for this.

A last tip is to look mostly at the model in the bottom left corner while making your changes. Because trying to guess where the pixels "should" be usually just leaves me frustrated.

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Thank you so much! This will be a huge help!

 

[BigBadButterfree]

Whoa, I didn't know they changed how the umbrella pattern works! I hadn't played around with it yet. Pity, but at least now we can customize each panel! Cute umbrella design btw, reminds me of the original "ducky umbrella" default design from GC.

 

[Mick]

Thank you so much! This will be a huge help!

I'm glad it helped! Good luck with the design.
And thanks for the bells, you didn't have to but I'll gladly take them <3