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Tiling materials

Tiling materials

- [Instructor] In this movie, I'm going to look at material tiling, which is really powerful technique for taking a material and making it repeat across a surface. This is especially useful when you want to take a relatively small material, and have it appear in many places. Perhaps, expanding across a large area in your scene. For example, what I'm looking at here is the 3D sample materials project included in the exercise files. This contains the creator kit puzzles scene, where we have three different puzzle levels. And this in front of us in the scene is just one of them. If you take a look at the floor of this world here, you'll notice that it has a material spanning across it. Now, this material is repeated across the floor. It looks pretty seamless and that's because the texture being used is a tillable texture. It's a texture that is the same and identical at each of its edges, so that it can repeat seamlessly.…

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