Aligning ceiling grid with ceiling appearance

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I'm wondering if there is a way to align a ceiling appearance with the ceiling grid? 

In image 1 you can see the lights are aligned with the ceiling grid, however image 2 is a rendering of the same image but you can see the ceiling appearance does not line up with the grid and therefore doesn't line up with the lights.

Thanks in advance

Josh  

[hmunsell · Accepted solution]

in the material, under the appearance tab, you can assign a position offset for the graphical material. I would start there....

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Under the graphics for a material there is a tool to align the map with the pattern.

[hmunsell]

I forgot about that one... good call.👍

[Anonymous]

Tim; I'm assuming you're referring to material browser>graphics>surface pattern> foreground>texture alignment?

The solutions you have both mentioned were exactly what i was looking for! thanks a lot 

[Anonymous]

Yes, that's right.

[Anonymous]

I've got another similar issue where i have got a perforated ceiling panel and im trying to add a cutout appearance to it, however when i align the position of the image in texture editor as you would expect it to be it doesn't fill the face of the selected object (See image 1) 

So i then played around with the alignment and got it to look about right (image 2) but when i load it in my project and insert the panel the cutout has gone back to its original position (image 3) any ideas why this might be?