Better texturing method.

Hey, I decided the create a tutorial about a little trick for better aligning of textures. I don't think many mappers knows this trick, although it's very simple and much easier than using the texture application tool "manually" .. Like moving around with Shift, Center, Fit, align World, Face, you name it ..

So lets get started:

I've created a very simple rock/cliff of a few solids here.

"Texture bugs" is not easy to see from far away, although it's quite easy to see that the big face around the middle looks kinda stretched. These kind of faces mostly occurs when you've clipped/vertex manipulated a brush, in my experience.
So, lets have a closer look at it.
Now, that doesn't look good. You see those "lines" between the faces? That's what we want to get rid of.

So, now you open the Texture Application tool, and select a face (do not select those stretched ones, if you have any of those, this trick aligns the other faces to the one you've selected) ..

Now, hold Alt, and right click on a face next to the one you've just selected.
Wow, that really does look much better, doesn't it?
Now, move around in the 3D window, and align the other textures like you just did. You should have a fine looking piece of art now :D

Hope that this helped some people out there. Have fun mapping!

Wow I really didnt know this ...
Creek can look much better with this method

Originally posted by DistractioN

i allways select the stretched out face and check the 'world' box, it does the same imo

By the way, this is not something I've found, the original tutorial you can find at www.snarkpit.net.

thanks alot, it helped me :P

tnx i dind know it,i will try it,i have many hns maps but i dont know a 100aa community to post my maps,can someone link me a 100aa community,sorry for the big offtopic

n1 puppetz...:)

Wow.. Thank you so much for this, I never knew about this method. :-)