[3Ds Max / UE4] How to properly tile materials on non-modular walls?

Dreyzie · Feb 2017

Hey, guys. I tried looking for a similar question out there, but I couldn't find anything too helpful.

Basically, I'm trying to create a small room in UE4 using non-modular architecture. The walls are all one piece while the floor and ceiling are separate. I usually work with modular pieces, so I'm not sure how to approach tiling

Screenshots taken in UE4.

As you can see, the adjacent grid materials are misaligned

I'm not sure if that is a big deal, but I'm afraid it won't look right when I add a proper wall texture.

Here is a screenshot of the UV. (Tips on how to improve my UV layout also appreciated.)

Does this look like a UV problem? or is the tiling dealt with in the UE4 material editor? Any help is welcome.

musashidan · Feb 2017

You can ignore 0-1 UV space and snap all the pieces vertically and lay them out horizontally in one long strip. You can also scale them all up if you like to gain a lot of texel space.(not a big deal as you're using tiling textures)

Xendance · Feb 2017

Personally I'd just use world space UVs inside the actual material in UE 4. Then you could just ignore the UVs.

cptSwing · Feb 2017

^ A triplanar-mapping shader is more expensive, though (if that's what you mean?)

poopipe · Feb 2017

musashidan said:

You can ignore 0-1 UV space and snap all the pieces vertically and lay them out horizontally in one long strip. You can also scale them all up if you like to gain a lot of texel space.(not a big deal as you're using tiling textures)

This is the correct way to go about it.

[3Ds Max / UE4] How to properly tile materials on non-modular walls?

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