Tile Texturing Over Multiple Objects - Need Help!

JordonTurberfield

Hi guys,

I'm currently making a Cyberpunk styled bedroom, I'm fairly inexperienced with texturing. I can UV unwrap okay, but when it comes to texturing I haven't got much of a clue.

Anyway,  I'm not sure how I would go about making my texture tile over multiple pieces. As you can see below, I'm wanting to get my main modular wall to have a texture which lines up with the corner.

Just to clarify there is another object on the UV map for the corner, so it's not completely empty space.

Any sort of help will be massively appreciated!

Thanks,

Jordon

musashidan

If you're using tiling textures then 0-1 uv space isn't the limit. The space is effectively infinite because the texture repeats/tiles infinitely through uv space. You can stretch, overlap, and place elements where ever you like to align the textures. 

Just show the map in the viewport and move the uvs around until the textures match up. You also need to normalise the texel resolution so the tiling texture remains consistent. You can visualise this with a checker texture either by eye or using a script like textools.

JordonTurberfield

musashidan said:

If you're using tiling textures then 0-1 uv space isn't the limit. The space is effectively infinite because the texture repeats/tiles infinitely through uv space. You can stretch, overlap, and place elements where ever you like to align the textures. 

Just show the map in the viewport and move the uvs around until the textures match up. You also need to normalise the texel resolution so the tiling texture remains consistent. You can visualise this with a checker texture either by eye or using a script like textools.

Thanks for the response Musashidan. I didn't know about normalising texel resolution, and that's where it was going wrong for me.

Thanks again for the help.

musashidan

You're welcome. There is also this great tool for texel normalising in Max. Not free but, cheap. http://www.polytools3d.com/tools/normalizer/index.html

JordonTurberfield

musashidan said:

You're welcome. There is also this great tool for texel normalising in Max. Not free but, cheap. http://www.polytools3d.com/tools/normalizer/index.html

Nice one, looks a very useful tool!

Thanks  Musashidan

Eric Chadwick

You can also try Rescale Clusters in the Edit UVW window.
http://help.autodesk.com/view/3DSMAX/2016/ENU/?guid=GUID-2AEF6A44-859D-434E-8E08-00D2A480A0CD

JordonTurberfield

Eric Chadwick said:

You can also try Rescale Clusters in the Edit UVW window.
http://help.autodesk.com/view/3DSMAX/2016/ENU/?guid=GUID-2AEF6A44-859D-434E-8E08-00D2A480A0CD

Thanks for the information Eric, helped a lot with the Unwrapping!