Need help getting rid of brick seam.

ahendowski

Hey eurrbody. I've just been perplexed by this problem for a while and it's affecting me getting anything done.

I learned how to create a tileable texture, which is great, but now I'm dealing with the continuity of this brick texture to be seamless:



That's too ugly for my taste. How can I combat this? When I line and connect the UV's, to be smooth, they become distorted. I just cannot figure it out.

A friend recommended looking into trims for brick, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around getting a smooth result. Can you guys help?

Xoliul

Do a trim? model in some edges that you can map to a different piece of texture.
Like this white corner thing: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Albany_Library_South_End.jpg

ahendowski

Xoliul wrote: »

Do a trim? model in some edges that you can map to a different piece of texture.
Like this white corner thing: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Albany_Library_South_End.jpg

I'm just wondering, with a medieval forge type deal, mostly they lay down bricks and cement them together. I'm trying to keep in mind realism, and can't find any examples of trim.

Here's an example reference I'm using:



So I guess my other question is, in this sense, what kind of trim should I try out or do?

LMP

You could potentially make the forge a unique object. Create a high poly then a low poly and bake down. That would be the most likely solution in a production environment as it is likely the forge could be reused in other places.

cccprobot

LMP wrote: »

You could potentially make the forge a unique object. Create a high poly then a low poly and bake down. That would be the most likely solution in a production environment as it is likely the forge could be reused in other places.

+1 on the above. You'll never get close to that reference with a tiling texture because your UV's would have to be stitched together and that will cause the brick "flow" to be all over the place.

slosh

For one thing, on a curved surface, the bricks arent going straight across. Even in the reference, where the bricks are at an angle on the sides, the bricks radiate outward at angles on the front. You just can't have them straight across if you want the sides to be angled. Also, for a unique asset such as that, you could do a custom texture and just have that area not use a tiling texture. The other solution is cut the geo so you can have the strips radiating out at an angle. You may still get a little distortion but it could work a lot better.

slosh

I sketched out what i mean by the angle geo strips so you can UV them as strips to use the tiling texture.