basic repeat texture problem

davivid

hi guys, I'm attempting to apply the same texture to several buildings in 3ds max. However I'm having trouble getting the textures to align from building to building.

I figured I would create one building 15 units high and another 30 units high. the material is set to real-world units of size 15, and I have applied UVW Mapping to the buildings, setting it to box, and to use real-world size.

The building of size 30 displays correctly having the texture repeat twice, however the building of 15 has the texture off set wrong, as the top of the texture is in the middle of the building.

Could someone please point me in the right direction? thanks.

brandoom

If its a tillable texture, try moving the Uv's around.

TheBat

To move the UV's around you could add and Unwrap UVW modifier (collapse the stack, and add and Unwrap modifier on top of that). If you then click "Edit" you can see the way your UV's are layed out, and you can finetune them.

Hope this helps

davivid

cheers, I was able to manually line up the textures using the gizmo or as said changing values. I was hoping there would be an automatic way to do this - just apply the texture to a selection, as I will have many hundreds of very basic buildings to textures, and was hoping to avoid either adjusting each one, or loose the variety by re using the buildings/blocks.

davivid

got it. really really simple - just select all the buildings that have the same texture, and add the uvw map to them as a group instead of individually and then then floors line up!