I don't know if this is something you already know, but some probably don't: Yesterday I tried to tile textures with poser the same way that you can do in OpenGL programming. This time Poser did exactly what i wanted it to do.(!!!) Instead of keeping the UVs within the 0->1 range you "expands" the range to the "number of tiles" you want. The image shows this better ^^^ This is perfect when making walls/bricks/grounds. You can have great detail even with a very small texture. The problem is that i had to do this by hand in a text editor. Does anyone know of a UV-mapping tool that can do this??? /Ohman

Could you show which lines you change!? That looks very intriguing indeed! In MAX, i have no problem, i just change it in material editor... Marc

Yes Ohman... Are you changing lines in the .obj (or .pp2/.cr2?) file here? I would LOVE to know how to tile textures in Poser... I have always built custom texture maps for differently sized surfaces to make the detail come out consistent. Perhaps you could provide an example? I have noticed that Steve Cox's UV-Mapper program has a "Tiles" item under the "Edit" menu. Perhaps it might play into this subject?? Thanks, Buck

I just noticed that "Tile" function in UVMapper as well, but have not played with it. Anyone figure it out - or see any documentation on that part from Steve? (Gonna go scan through his website again)

I think the "Tile" function simply reoders the different sections of the map, so they don't overlap. There's also a "Leave Gap" Option that comes with that. Correct me if i'm wrong... Marc

Viomar's right about the uvmapper tile function, I use it when I'm trying to figure out the best way to map stuff, just to seperate it all and better see how the different parts fit in different places...I would like to know how to tile in poser though...pretty please :)

Nutz! I'd just noticed it a few days ago. It's probably been there all along. Doesn't sound too difficult though. Perhaps Steve will consider adding it to his upgrade list. I'm thinking of something simple that would allow you to make a selection, pick the Tiling function, choose a grid size to split it up, and UVM takes each section of that grid and blows it up to 1x1 (full page) ,overlaying them and assigns them to a new material. When subsequently using the model you would just apply a separate map to this tiled portion of the figure and it would be repeated according to the grid size you selected. But then, whadda I know about writing apps.... (Hoping Steve might cruz past this thread)

In the case shown i just opened the .obj-file in notepad and multiplied all values in the vt lines by two: vt 0 0 => vt 0 0 vt 0 0.5 => vt 0 1 vt 0 1 => vt 0 2 vt 0.5 0 => vt 1 0 vt 0.5 0.5 => vt 1 1 vt 0.5 1 => vt 1 2 vt 1 0 => vt 2 0 vt 1 0.5 => vt 2 1 vt 1 1 => vt 2 2 Works fine for a simple object. /Ohman

Doh! That was a really nice looking table when i posted it. :o) /Ohman

UVMapper can currently handle this is a round about sort of way. Here's a related note I just posted to the Poser list (of course, that 'someone else' is Nance...) Also, I just tried it with a simple 4 sided polygon and it works great. + + + I believe that Poser actually does handle texture tiling. To test this I loaded an apple into UVMapper and remapped it using planar mode (without splitting.) I then selected everything and pressed the keypad-* key twice to make the map 16 times as large (effectively a 4x4 tile.) I then pressed 'home' to align the map with the top left corner and saved out the model. I loaded it into Poser and applied a simple texture. The render is here: http://home.pb.net/~stevecox/render.jpg and the texture map I used is here: http://home.pb.net/~stevecox/tile.jpg Interestingly, someone else has just written me asking for some additional functionality in UVMapper to support tiling. It should be pretty easy to do, I just need to think through the user interface issues to simplify things a bit. Is this the effect you're looking for? Steve

This is very interesting Steve! I think that's what Ohman was taking about... And Thanks Ohman for the table reference. Now we know one new feature for Steve's next Update on his "Fantastic" UVmapper... ;-) Marc

Amazing discovery guys! This opens all sorts of possibilities in mapping for Poser. Haven't tried it yet, but it sounds like Steve's technique could be performed on just a single material of a model with several materails. No? Anyway, a big thanks for working this out. -Nance

I do agree, texture tiling is a great things and works perfectly well in Poser, especially if you make buildings or any kind of architectural props / char (a stripe of wallpaper like in real life for exemple to texture the walls). In fact for that kind of model I use it quiet extensively (the only way to get a pretty detailed map without having to use a huge one. I do it from within max but yes, it would be definitively a wonderful things if this possibility was also avaiable in uv-mapper :):) J-L