Multiple tiling on texture

Thunderent · Jun 2012

Hello!

I don't know if the title sounds right,but I'll try to explain as best as I can.

I've made a small medieval house and now I'm trying to texture it.I want to use a single texture sheet for it due to performance issues,etc...something like this picture below.

Picture(not my work):

As you can see on the texture sheet it has multiple tiling(the wood/roof...).I want to achieve something like that,but I'm not sure how to do it.

P.S:I'm using 3ds Max ...

Thank you very much in advance,
--Thunder

WarrenM · Jun 2012

You can't tile a piece of a texture, so you'll have to add geometry cuts to make things tile.

cryrid · Jun 2012

With that type of layout, pieces could tile vertically (wood and stone) or horizontally (wall and roof) a bit depending on how it's flipped. Vertically should be able to tile as long as it needs to, while horiztonal pieces would only be able to flip once unless the geo is split up like suggested (in that example the roof isn't really long,and the wooden beams help hide other splits so it doesn't even need to be seamless)

Abby3D · Jun 2012

I would think an Unwrap UV modifier would work here, and allow you to map each poly face to the texture. If you unwrap the UVs first, and then Render UV Template, you'll have a guideline to paint over in Photoshop (or your chosen painting program).

Eric Chadwick · Jun 2012

We put a bunch of info about this technique on the wiki, hope it helps
http://wiki.polycount.com/TextureAtlas

Edit: Oh, and the textures in that sheet are really badly done. They have super-obvious tiling artifacts. You should never do this. The texture details should be unique within each chunk, otherwise it's just a huge waste, and it just plain looks crappy.

Eric Chadwick · Jun 2012

That texture sheet could be packed much better. It could be 1/2 the file size of the original, and there's room to include the other pieces on the house... windows, shutters, door, etc. A super-quick example, but hopefully it explains my point.

Anthricus · Jun 2012

Best way i think to do it would be model each asset as part of the same edit poly but only have one piece of the tiling texture as real geometry , then texture it and multiply the elements out to give the effect of the tiling texture.
if you dont understand what i mean i can show u with an example

Thunderent · Jul 2012

Thanks for all the answers! Sorry for my late response.

@Eric thanks for the link!

I'm a bit confused about the adding loop cuts part,could someone explain it in further detail?Should I add the loop cuts while modelling or...

Thanks in advance,
--Thunderent

Eric Chadwick · Jul 2012

Here's the idea.
http://www.game-artist.net/forums/support-tech-discussion/182-step-step-techniques-tiling-textures-3ds-max.html

Multiple tiling on texture

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