Using Different Repeats And Offsets

Hi,
I have tried to make a building, got the texture how I want it on the exterior but when I need to change the repeats / offsets for the interior texture it knocks the exterior one out.
Is there a way to set the repeats /offsets so they lock for each face of an object or any way round this?

Click on the ") select texture" radiobox on the edit window, then click on the face you're working on. You can also use shift-click to toggle the selection of individual faces. Play with it, it's pretty straightforward.

Hi,
Thanks for your reply. I can apply a different texture on each face but what I wanted to know is if I can use a different repeat setting on each face. When ever I change this on the face I'm working on all the other textures on the object change to this setting

If you're using select texture, you can set repeats, offsets, etc for each face.

When you have a specific face selected, then you can change the repeat setting on only that face. If you have selected a specific face (with select texture in the edit window) and you change the repeats and they change on any face that's not selected, then that's a bug that needs to be reported in JIRA.

You do the same thing as suggested. Just make sure the 'Select texture' radio button is on and you can modify the texture on that particular face any way you like without affecting the other faces on the prim. You can even add bumpiness and shiny to that face alone.

Hint: I usually click on another prim after activating 'Select texture' and then click back onto the face I want to modify. This is because I'm an eejit and I like to be certain that I haven't got all the textures on that prim selected.

Are you sure about "any way you like?" I avoid glow and fullbright most of the time, so I haven't had a reason to try it, but I think that those particular features are all or nothing for the prim. I can't get in world right now to check, but I don't think you can 'Select texture' for them.



I do the same thing. It's called "idiotproofing."

Just tried it and glow and fullbright can be set for a single face - which surprised me because I thought they were all or nothing.

You may be thinking of the old "light" material type, which was all or nothing.

Thanks. That IS a surprise. I can imagine wanting to make a neon sign that has full bright on the front and back but not the sides, so that's neat to know. Not that I have much reason to make neon signs .......

I'm pretty sure I noticed something in scripting whereby glow can be applied to a particular face but I have never attempted that so I can't be certain. I only use glow in rare instances and very sparingly at that.

As for fullbright, I detest the feature with a passion so I don't ever touch the selection box. I wish it were removed completely from SL: some folks may be able to use it with discrimination but I would put it right up there with facelights as a general eyesore propagated by fools.


I'm glad to see I'm not the only one. 'Eejit' is a verbal corruption of 'idiot' for what it's worth.

Thanks everyone for your help .... I didn't know what the ' radiobox or radio button' was.
Anyway I got ( god, I'm a dimwit )

Nah, you're not a dimwit. If it makes you feel any better, almost no one figures out Select Texture on their own. I know I certainly didn't. It's very poorly named, so it really needs to be explained.

I've been saying for years, that there aught to be a simple 3-way selection toggle on the editor. The three options should be Select Whole Linksets, Select Individual Prims, and Select Individual Faces. The poorly named, and even more poorly placed, Edit Linked Parts and Select Texture should be done away with and forgotten. Things would be sooooo much simpler and easier if LL would make this change.

In any case, just so you know what "radio button" means, it's simply a round form of a checkbox. A standard checkbox is square, and displays a check mark in it when it's switched on. A radio button is round, and displays a dot in it when it's turned on. Both forms do exactly the same thing. Why LL chooses to use buttons for some options and boxes for others is anyone's guess.

Radio buttons and checkboxes do not do exactly the same thing. Radio buttons and checkboxes have distinct behaviors going all the way back to the early '80s.

A radio button is a "1 of N" selection. If you have more than one selection option but only one can be set at a time, you use a radio button. If setting an option does not effect other options, you use a checkbox.

All but the last options on that side of the edit window are exclusive of each other, so they are selected with a radio button. The last one, select individual prims, is a checkbox, because setting it does not clear the other options.

I don't know why things like this aren't explained in the official SL books .. I have 3 of them and it does not say anything.
If some experienced builders on SL bought out their own books of tips, I bet they fly off the shelves

one more point. inside a hollow prim, all 4 faces act as one (ie it's one face), and it's a pain in the butt to align some patterns to the corners and/or edges if they are visible.

Or a whole house that you have been texturing for a week straight

Ephraim Kappler roars laughing: it happened.

No guarantees, but sometimes if you change texture mapping from 'default' to 'planar' you can fix hollow interior textures. Same works on tapered edges for the perfect roof *hint hint. You just have to lower the horizontal and vertical repeats to whatever fits of course.