How to remove the tiling in appearances

[tim.lavelle]

Hi all... I'm looking at modelling a few rooms for the house build we're doing in a few months and I want to apply some custom appearances to components to help my wife look at colour combinations.

I've got the basic kitchen island and have the benchtop ready for a material, but when I edit an item and upload an image to use, I get a repeating rectangle on the top of my benchtop but the sides don't show this repeating rectangle.

When I compare setting to say 'Concrete' material and I apply that to this model, I don't get the repeating rectangle

Is there a setting to help with this or is it a Photoshop thing where the edges all match to help mask these tile lines? 

[mango.freund]

https://youtu.be/fj4pijlVHr8

[TrippyLighting]

The video @mango.freund has provided a link to explains how to modify the tiling, but not how to remove it.

If the image you used is large enough to cover the entire surface, you can simply scale the texture. No need to go into the advanced section of the texture.

If the image is not large enough, then you need to find another image. Look for the term tileable texture. Usually that means these image when tiled appear seamless. If you are looking not just for color but "structure" in your texture you'll also need a bump/normal map an often a roughness/or secularity map.

You might find some free ones at Polyhaven.com.

Poliigon makes high end textures at relatively low cost.

Arroway is more expensive but very high quality.

You can also create seamless textures using specialized Software such as Substance Pinter or Substance Designer, Marmoset Toolbag etc. 

[tim.lavelle]

Trippy, again mate! I did see that video and while it helped with getting custom materials, you're right as it didn't help with removing the tiling, even while scaling.

I ended up doing some Photoshop work to blend edges at certain areas, but to not look like it's repeating too much. It's done an OK job, but I will check out those software packages you mentioned and see how those go!

[TrippyLighting]

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@tim.lavelle wrote:

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I ended up doing some Photoshop work to blend edges at certain areas, but to not look like it's repeating too much. It's done an OK job,...

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HA, I forgot to mention that. I believe there are also plugins available for Photop that help with such workflows.