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I read "How do I create repeating patterns in cycles with procedural textures?" here on Blender Stack Exchange, and "staggered texture mapping" on Greg Zaal's website. I thought it seemed possible to combine the two ideas to have staggered procedural tiles, but can't seem to make it work. Can anyone please help?

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    $\begingroup$ can you post an example of staggered procedural pattern $\endgroup$
    – Chebhou
    Commented Apr 23, 2015 at 10:52

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Here are the nodes for creating staggered texture mapping for procedural textures. cycles nodes for the texture coordinates First the Y axis gets multiplied by the number of lines you want to have in the pattern (the Lines value node). After adding .5 that gets rounded creating stripes (along the X axis in this example).

  • If you were to look at the output from that node at this point it would look all white, that is because the values start at 1 and increase by 1 with each stripe.

section of the cycles nodes

The next three nodes take the stripes, multiplies it by the reciprocal of the input value (lines), then by 0.5 to lower the values. Then the X axis is added in.
section of the cycles nodes
At this point there are only stripes, next the Modulo math node causes the texture coordinates to repeat.
All that was for the X axis.

The Y axis is simple, it is just the Modulo of the reciprocal of the lines.

With the nodes pictured at the top you can get a pattern like this.
generated procedural pattern

After adding the Subtract and Absolute nodes from Jerryno's answer, every other tile will be mirrored and you can get a pattern like this.
generated procedural pattern

This blend has the nodes packed in to a node group, which can easily be added to any project.

Blend File

As you can see, manipulating the texture coordinates of generated textures is quite powerful.

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    $\begingroup$ You are the king. This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!!!! $\endgroup$
    – Dale Cieslak
    Commented Apr 24, 2015 at 4:26
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Try this one, but only on 2.8

https://gumroad.com/l/Brcks

you can append "br`ck" node tree then use br`ck_v1.1 node like this

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    $\begingroup$ While this link may answer the question, it is better to include the essential parts of the answer here and provide the link for reference. Link-only answers can become invalid if the linked page changes. - From Review $\endgroup$
    – Georges D
    Commented Apr 4, 2019 at 16:00
  • $\begingroup$ @Georges, thanks for correction. $\endgroup$
    – user41149
    Commented Apr 5, 2019 at 3:19

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