Seamless Textures

Striff

Hey guys, I have been working on a prison environment, and now it is time to texture it. I have been comtimplating if I should use seamless textures primarley for large portions of the jail (like the floor), or actually make UV maps for them, and make it one whole texture.

I decided to go with seamless textures on the larger areas, and I am going to give other things their own texture space. The question I have is, for the parts that I want to have seamless textures on..do I have to UV map it? This is what I currently have :



I am just scaling the UV's up or down to my liking. Is this how seamless textures are UV'ed?

Also, I would like to add more detail to my seamless textures, but im afraid if I do, people will definatly be able to tell it is repeated. How would you recomend adding detail without it looking half assed?

Here are a couple pictures of how my first seamless texture looks in the scene :







And this is the texture (I know, its photosourced, but im still learning PS!) :



Thanks for the help guys.

oXYnary

Can you have another seamless texture on top.. whats that called again? I mean its a alpha planned seamless texture that you can paint on with a brush on top of your initial layer in the game to break up the pattern randomly. Sometimes these can be multiple layers deep.

killingpeople

this might be of use.

source: http://www.poopinmymouth.com/tutorial/tutorial.htm

Eric Chadwick

If you want to use a single texture to fill a large area, it's best to rotate the UVs a little on the W axis, so the tiling doesn't follow the lines of the room. Should make it less noticeable.

You could also work on removing more of the repeating patterns.

Striff

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Can you have another seamless texture on top.. whats that called again? I mean its a alpha planned seamless texture that you can paint on with a brush on top of your initial layer in the game to break up the pattern randomly. Sometimes these can be multiple layers deep.

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Hmmm..I might know what your talking about. I think Valve calls them "decals"..im not 100% sure though. Thanks for the help so far, guys!

Eric Chadwick

This might help.
http://udn.epicgames.com/Two/DetailTexture

thnom

Isn't a "DetailTexture" the revolutionary thing within Soldier of Fortune (the 1st one). They found the method out in like Quake2, so decided to try it out or something

motives

if you are building your environment in max or maya you might want to add some decalplanes and put them on top your base texture to break it up a bit.

I got this from Choldens lowpoly hallowen thread:
http://chrisholden.net/decals.jpg

Some additional info in the thread:
http://boards.polycount.net/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=77097&an=0&page=1#77097