How to avoid tiling.

honoluludesktop

Am looking for any advice, and suggestions regarding how to avoid, or control tiling, especially with SU's materials.

pilou

Maybe?
take an image of the SU material and modify it for have a tilling pattern image
Maybe this can help you (it's free)

Mike Lucey

This is an interesting read, http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cohen/wangfinal.pdf.

I imagine that modifying the 'tile' texture so that that it has 'even' light over the entire area might also help to eliminate the 'tiling' effect.

Mike

Richard

Mate you need generally to use bigger maps, tile repeats in small maps are near impossible to avoid. An almost consistant non varied material can work with small maps though you will then end up with unrealistic flat boring surfaces!

One tip I can give is for testing! In PS I will work on a new or existing texture and set up an action;

select all,
copy merged,
canvas size, percent, 400 / 400 origin from top left
paste, move next to original,
paste, move next to last, etc etc
paste, move row down
paste, move to next etc, etc

I don't actually use paste but alt+move but for the explantation it's a bit more clear!

then check for tiling

new action; undo, undo, undo etc!

Then make any changes and hit action 1 check for tiling and hit action 2. After the first these actions happen REALLY fast. You can set one up for differing common size maps - 512x512, 1024x1024, 2000x2000, 2048x2048, 2400x2400

OR simply have an instance of SU open with a large plane and each time you make a change to the material save it and reload into SU - not actually as fast as the action option but does allow for a much larger repeat!

honoluludesktop

Thanks people! I will give them all a try.

caddict

thanks for the tips richard!

pilou, have you used that mapzone? it looks amazing for producing custom realistic textures. if i had an extra 3 hours in very day, i might give it a try

pilou

Sorry no, because that ask some training
And you must love Nodes

Gaieus

I had a look but I can't figure out how it works.
Maybe one day.

EscapeArtist

Ugh, nodes. I have yet to be able to make anything at all with nodes, I can't get my head around the logic.