Procedural patterns

Choose Resources → Patterns → Add pattern, or the pattern tool above the canvas. Pick a visual preset—Dots, Stripes, Chevrons, Diamonds, Checkerboard, or Monogram—and choose Create pattern. Leave Add to canvas enabled to place it immediately, or disable it to keep a reusable resource for later.

To start from your artwork, select rectangles, ellipses, or paths before opening the picker and choose Use selected shapes. Their vector silhouettes become the repeating sequence; the original objects remain unchanged. In the pattern editor, symbol previews let you replace a shape, use a selected vector, or import an SVG silhouette. Text, images, and artwork with unsupported SVG features need conversion to plain vector paths first. Source colors belong to the pattern layer's fill, so imported symbols supply geometry rather than separate paints.

Adjust size, rows, spacing, row offset, and variation while watching the preview. Shuffle changes the arrangement's seed. Enable Animate, choose a direction and loop duration in seconds, and use Play preview to inspect motion without moving the main timeline. The exported pattern moves while the graphic is on-air and keeps its seamless loop. Detailed SVG source, per-row overrides, and shared lighting remain under Advanced.

Resources shows each pattern's preview and usage count. Add to canvas creates another linked layer; Duplicate creates a separate resource. Editing shared symbols, layout, or motion updates every linked instance. Each layer keeps its own fill, outline, transform, and effects. Choose Make independent in a pattern layer's Properties to give it its own editable copy. Existing patterns retain their original settings until you edit them or choose a preset.