Basic Tutorial: Texture alignment across brushes

[Moonbo]

Hey all,

 

This is a simple technique to ensure quick texture alignment across brushes, but I haven't seen it recorded anywhere so I thought I'd write it down. When you're texturing the walls of a room, you'll normally apply a texture to one brush, then copy/paste it onto the adjacent brushes until everything is textured:

 

 

 

 

 

 

The problem with this copy/paste method is that, like you see above, the textures will almost never align properly, and then you'd have to shift/move the textures on the second brush in order to get them to line up.

 

The reason for this is that DarkRadiant will only smoothly move textures between surfaces if the brushes are set up in a certain way. The surfaces can't be overlapping at all. They need to touching only at a single point:

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you move the brushes so that they are set up as shown on the right (i.e. the copy/paste surfaces are only touching each other at one point in space), then copy/pasting will result in perfect texture alignment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And there you have it; as long as you set up all your surfaces so that they are touching at one point, you'll have seamless texture alignment when you copy/paste.

 

For more complicated sections of brushes, the same setup will work, just cut up your brushes so that the copy/pasted surfaces are only touching at one point.

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's a simple principle to remember, but it works wonders and will make aligning your textures a breeze.

Edited December 1, 2014 by Moonbo

[buck28]

Thank you!