texturing Question !! (

ayoub44

hi guys

wath mean tiling texture ?!!

i have make a search on google :poly127: and i try to make one



this is it ?
please help

Zakk

Basicly, a tiling texture is a texture which can be repeatedly laid out on a mesh without visible seams.

Your texture doesn't really tile.

Here's an example of a tiling texture:



As you can see, this one can be laid out next to itself without any visible seams:



Check out this tutorial, found on the wiki:
http://www.twisted-strand.com/ut_tutorials/text_tut/index2.html

Oh and please feel free to correct me if i've missed anything (like the whole point :P)

ayoub44

oh , thanks man .. that help me a lot

so when like i wanna texturing a wood ground

i just use that one



or i make a big one for ground in photoshop :

Zakk

Basicly, yes.

Just be careful about using tiled textures like that on large surfaces, as it can quickly make it look very repetative (obviously) and unrealistic.

Glad i could help a bit

ayoub44

in this image

i make two exemples 1 and 2


and i use two method to texture it



wish method is the correct ?
the tiling texture is the method of making the textue ?
or just the texture have to be repeatedly laid out on a mesh without visible seams like you say and without care about the method of texturing ? please help

PredatorGSR

Method 1 is the correct way to use tiling textures.

ayoub44

ok , i see a tuto i found it in polycount wiki .. he use many texture on one object

brick1.tga brick2.tg ...... brick4.tga

so when i want to export my object to udk @_@ .. udk give one diffuse no 4

ayoub44

we use tiling texture .. just for ground and wall ?

on that work

http://www.bro3d.pl/portfolio/contractworks/bond/carriage02/carriage02.htm

he didn't use tiling texture

kodde

ayoub44> The model in that link uses unique texture details across the model. Tiling would not allow this. Probably and active choice of the author.

ayoub44

let's say i have my object and i unwrap it .. and i wanna make tiling texture

and please give me exemples for tiling texture

cryrid

It looks like the wood is only a small section of the texture. You'd have to slice the mesh up and stack the uv's if you wanted to tile that way.

ayoub44

thanks man , but there any examples can help me ?? to understan tiling

kodde

What cyrrid says is tutorial enough imo.

Slice/cut the polygon surface in segments matching the aspect ratio of your texture (1:1?). Then cut up the UV's along those newly created edges and you should have several identical UV pieces. Place these above each other. Now make sure that all of these "stacked" uv's are normalized/aligned to your texture in the UV editor.

ayoub44

like that : ??

kodde

There you go!
Although judging from the image you have some stretching going on. Your texture source seems fairly quadratic while your polygon segments seem more rectangular.

Snowfly

kodde: what do you mean by his texture source seems quadratic? not sure i've seen the word used in that context before.

jimmypopali

Comparing the actual polygon shape (in 3d space) is more like a rectangle, but on the UV sheet, the texture is a square. That's why it is getting stretching. Putting a square texture on a rectangle shape is going to stretch it a bit.

Hope that helps.

kodde

Snowfly wrote: »

kodde: what do you mean by his texture source seems quadratic? not sure i've seen the word used in that context before.

What Jimmy said

His texture source seems to resemble a square, while the polygon segments are more rectangle like. This should mean he has stretching going on.

Snowfly

Ah ok gotcha. I see it now. Yeah, I was going by the mathematical/dictionary definition of quadratic when I glanced through this thread, which is what threw me off. English is probably not your first language, so I think you meant 'squarish'.

Cheers

kodde

Snowfly wrote: »

Ah ok gotcha. I see it now. Yeah, I was going by the mathematical/dictionary definition of quadratic when I glanced through this thread, which is what threw me off. English is probably not your first language, so I think you meant 'squarish'.

Cheers

No you're right. Swedish is my first language
I realized the issue once you pointed it out. Meant squarish or "square like" even.

Anyway, back to topic.

Snowfly

kodde - no worries, i should've slowed down before posting

here are some crude examples, but hopefully they get the point across-

ayoub44

Snowfly : now man i understand thanks you a lot