how do you avoid textures from tiling?

[aarons]

what is the best method to avoid textures from tiling, such as in a render that has a lawn. it allways seems to be a lawn that has tile lines or no tile lines but the grass looks like jungle trees?

[CipesDesign]

With certain textures, and "grass" is perfect example, there is no perfect way to avoid the tiling. In these cases I often can get pretty decent results by playing with the texture's scale. With grass I usually make the scale much smaller, so the tiling still occurs but tends to become part of the overall effect. I guess you could say that I'm using the texture (almost) as a color.

[Dave Donley]

Hello aarons:

Peter is right, to make the tiling less noticeable you either need to use an image that covers a very large area so it doesn't repeat enough to notice, or make the texture size so small that the repeating is a part of the look.

There are also plugins for Photoshop that allow you to make tiled images that don't have a noticeable seam.

Edited July 15, 2007 by Dave Donley

[mike m oz]

Some rendering programs have options for mirroring the textures in one or two directions (deending on circumstances) so that the pattern repeats without you seeing a seam. I can't understand why this simple obvious improvement hasn't been implemented in RenderWorks.

[aarons]

those are some great tips guys. Thanks all. Feel free to drop more hints and tips if anyone has other things to add..