Tiling Textures Question...

Stronin

Alright, so basically for a race track I'm creating the track is made up of welded pieces of metal. Now, texturing that works fine for straight part sections, becuase of course you can do a relatively small piece and then just duplicate it without issues.


However i have this large radial section that i need to have similar textures on, but I know I have to use some sort of tiling method on it.




I'm currently using 3ds Max 9, any ideas on how to get the style of the straight part onto the radial curve? Obviously the most important section to have tiling well is the road surface.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

vik

First of all straighten those uvs. Have a look at Chuggnut`s tools on scriptspot, it`s a must really if you use Max.

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/unwrap-tools

Polyboost can select loops/rings in the UVW window but I`m pretty sure there are free scripts for that task as well.

Stronin

Thank you greatly!

okkun

or loft that whole thing based on a cross section shape, check create uv's on the loft and you're done

Eric Chadwick

You could also try this amazing UV tool from Olivier Vandecasteele.
http://users.skynet.be/arketip/arketip_morphMapENG.htm

SHEPEIRO

or you could build then bend

Parnell

SHEPEIRO wrote: »

or you could build then bend

I second the build, then bend method.
I had to model/uv the great wall in Titan Quest and come up with some crazy bending pieces.
Building them straight, UVin THEN bending them saved on textures and made it a breeze to work with.
B

Stronin

Sounds like a very simple way to do it. I'll give it a go

Thanks for all the help guys!