Variety in 'modular textures'

Thunderent

Hi!

First off I want to apologize for the confusing thread title but I couldn't find an appropiate one for my issue,also I hoped I posted this in the appopiate section.

My question is : How to break the boring 'tilingness' when using modular assets.As you can see in the picture posted below the texture repeats itself and I want to add some variety to it.

From what I know I could use decals and/or vertex painting.Though I'm concerned about their performance on large scale scenes.Are there any other techniques I can use to add some variety to the hallway(cracks,dust,etc.)?

By the way,I'm using Unity.

(example hallway).



Thanks in advance!

.Wiki

You could add cracks and dust with decals. These are basically transparent materials which lie on a mesh above the geometry.

Eric Chadwick

http://wiki.polycount.com/Multitexture

Thunderent

Thank you all for the answers!

Meloncov

You can also break up the repetition with modeled details. Columns, beams, wires, vents, outlets and so on.

As for decals and vertex blending, you're not gonna run into performance issues unless you go totally crazy with them.

Sean VanGorder

Here we make use of a lot of grime masks set to either different tiling rates or using world space positions. Really helps break things up. You can pack a few different grimes into an RGB mask and overlay them at different rates and intensities.

Similar to this tutorial.