Aligning Textures on a Slanted Wall

[HeadShot]

Yea so I've tried the floor/ceiling trick, and I deintersected a cube into the shape I wanted instead of using a cylinder & all. I can't get the wall to have perfect texture alignment, using the floor/ceiling trick stretches the texture and then when I set scale back to 1 it's unaligned. I can't find a way to align them, I think I remember a texture align tool or something. Any help appreciated, I'm rusty at mapping right now, been like a year almost.

[[§Ŕ] ŤhěxĐâŕkśîđěŕ]

[img]http://thedarkside.net63.net/TexturePan.bmp[/img] to pan textures
[img]http://thedarkside.net63.net/TextureRotate.bmp[/img] to rotate textures

[HeadShot]

oh no, I know all about those 2 tools, erm lets say, it's a cube upright & all, but I rounded off the edges some, but it's not a cylinder per say. so it has the aligning bug a cylinder has, but I can't use TexAlign to fix it like a cylinder lol.

[[§Ŕ] ŤhěxĐâŕkśîđěŕ]

I don't understand. :-?

Post screenshots.

[HeadShot]

It's simple, the texture align is not working, like when you do a cylinder. I made a custom shape real quick for the idea of my room, but the diagonal walls are unaligned as far as textures.

[img]http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/5059/image1md.jpg[/img]

EDIT: I just assumed that maybe it was due to the surfaces not being divisible by 256 or w/e the texture size is. So I recreated my simple custom brush makin each diagonal wall divisible by 256, and failure again.

[[§Ŕ] ŤhěxĐâŕkśîđěŕ]

I believe that's normal, just flip its U coord and align manually by one pixel. And don't make the room closed w/o something on wall cause it won't be aligned at the end, if you understand what I'm saying.

[Shivaxi]

Just use 227g when it comes out. Align texture to wall X/Y axis thank you very much 8-)

[creavion]

Just use 227g when it comes out.  Align texture to wall X/Y axis thank you very much 8-)

Oh man you are really a 227 boy^^.. anyway, everything that makes aligning more easy than just to flip a brush and to align to floor would be very welcome. For that I would even install rtnp again (could copy brush than to ut ed hehe).

[[§Ŕ] ŤhěxĐâŕkśîđěŕ]

Headshot, did you try making a normal cube first, and then moving the vertexes? Not working.

Btw now I saw that the brush is totally off the grid, that's not gonna help... :\ Ignore.

TL;DR

It's always misaligned, use some kind of pillars as I did here (click on the pic):
[url=http://thedarkside.net63.net/Good.jpg][img]http://thedarkside.net63.net/thumb.php?img=Good.jpg[/img][/url]

Note that I didn't put those there to conceal misalignment (it was aligned perfectly) but only for eye candy. Did the same for a panning texture trick, where there's a cylinder intersected and subtracted from the wall, set a green fiber texture, U panning and a bit of alignment. But it's never perfect, because the last side is misaligned to the first one. inb4twss If you can't fix it, hide it. no homo

[HeadShot]

Just use 227g when it comes out.  Align texture to wall X/Y axis thank you very much 8-)

Can't wait.


Darksider: I was just trying to avoid having to pan, and i'd still have to have the wall sections divisible by 256 or it would be unaligned in at least 1 spot.

Creavion: Yea I tried that, but it stretched my texture too much and when I set scale back to 1 ( because usually it stays aligned ) it went unaligned again. I was quite confused.

[[§Ŕ] ŤhěxĐâŕkśîđěŕ]

Yeah but you can purposely misalign them but by a certain amount and add something to conceal that. A pile of boxes or a pillar, f. ex.

[HeadShot]

Yeah but you can purposely misalign them but by a certain amount and add something to conceal that. A pile of boxes or a pillar, f. ex.

Lol very true, I'm just a perfectionist most of the time, thats why a lot of mappers don't like when I criticize on their maps haha. I catch any little flaws xD, but hey I do the same to my maps.

[[§Ŕ] ŤhěxĐâŕkśîđěŕ]

Yeah but you can purposely misalign them but by a certain amount and add something to conceal that. A pile of boxes or a pillar, f. ex.

Lol very true, I'm just a perfectionist most of the time, thats why a lot of mappers don't like when I criticize on their maps haha. I catch any little flaws xD, but hey I do the same to my maps.

Yeah me too lol. Just look at the brush alignment in my maps. xD Damn OCD...

[Buster]

I know this prog works with UnrealEd 1, and should work with 227. It will properly align textures several ways. Slant and Skew etc. I used it to align the textures of the slanted hallway leading into the dance club in ZahltagOps.

It's as easy as inputing the length and height of the slant, click a button and that's it !!

Here's a link to the prog TexAlign2 ...
http://www.members.shaw.ca/sb_tools/texalign2.zip

[img]http://www.members.shaw.ca/sneaki_b/slant2.jpg[/img]

[Turboman.]

For slanting textures, if you're good at the editor console (unrealed2) you might want to try out some texture aligning commands listed at unrealsp.org

http://www.unrealsp.org/community/leveldesign/tips/texturing.html

two from the top of my head:
slant vertical
poly texscale UU=1 VV=1 VU=1 UV=0

slant horizontal
poly texscale UU=1 VV=1 VU=0 UV=1

[Shivaxi]

Just use 227g when it comes out.  Align texture to wall X/Y axis thank you very much 8-)

Oh man you are really a 227 boy^^..

8-)