Texture/unwrap advice

Saidin311

Ok so I'm still learning, facing a situation I can't wrap my head around.

sidenote: I'm showing one of sinistergfx textures from WAR (I hope he doesn't mind) as an example of what I'm GOING to create (not going to use his texture in the final) and what I want applied to this particular surface.

My problem is how do I get a texture that tiles like this to look properly on the following curved roof.

On to This:


I'm not entirely sure how I should unwrap (or map) this roof piece, whether I do a planar route or line up the uvs in a row.


I also haven't decided whether I want to use a tileable or a unique unwrap. I'd like to tile a texture ala Will's so that I can use a shingle texture on multiple roofs etc. But I don't know how to get the tileable texture to line up properly on a circular roof surface like this.

I hope this is clear enough? Sorry if this seems uber noob. Like I said, I haven't come across this situation before so I'm learning new things here.

danr

neither - you've got four subdivisions in your cone, and a texture that has (more or less) natural and evenly spaced seams running both horizontally and also vertically. If you think of it as 4 seperate unwraps, and do some clever/skillful old-school pixel alignment, you should be able to unwrap the cone with consistent pixel density and zero distortion, which is a luxury you don't always get

SHEPEIRO

cylinder map the bottom half of the roof then build a triangular peice for the top

renderhjs

I would do it like this:

stack the rest on top of each other

that way you avoid big distortion, uniques in texture creation (would force you to paint) and finally space

wailingmonkey

renderhjs

well yes of course you need to tweak the border that leave your shell - don't expect the texture itself or just UV doing all the magic.
there are various techniques for making tileable textures though what matters here that the vertical border edges do loop/tile.

some google results for making tileable textures:
http://www.game-artist.net/forums/spotlight-articles/892-tutorial-create-tileable-texutres.html
http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_education/offset_filter/offset_filter.htm

the way I would do it however would be by masking a few single shingle objects from your texture and place them half half on booth sides left and right - so that it loops and ends with that particular shingle.

Junkie_XL

ya know what would be really neat. If a UV shell could be exported and used as a pre-configured setting for the warp tool in photoshop.

swytch

ya know what would be really neat. If a UV shell could be exported and used as a pre-configured setting for the warp tool in photoshop.

Could you use TexTools 'render the selected UV faces as mask to clipboard' function to make a selection of the shell(s) and then run Warp? Or, are you wanting the Warp matrix to have the flow(?) of the UV shell?