On furniture we have places where we want that wrap-around seamlessness even if the texture is not seamless. But we also have places where we want to artifically create seams.

For example, each drawer in a chest should look like it's a different piece of wood. But we want to use the same generic texture on the whole thing.

So Tom arranged the drawer faces so that they are cut out of the generic texture from different areas, and different orientations. It's still all one texture on the piece, but it looks like it was made with custom textures because there are discontinuities where they should be, and continuities where they should be.

But - we can use any texture on the piece - anything at all !

Lots of people think we're using seamless textures - we're not. Some of them I made seamless, but I didn't have to.

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