Newbie Texturing/Building/Aligning question

I have gotten the building part down pretty well, with help from all the great residents here. I am still having a problem aligning textures, even simple ones like CONCRETE! STOP LAUGHING!

I know the textures are percentage based(well at least I think).

is there any kind of formula or tricks to aligning the txtures easily? I have sat and tried for about 2 hours on this ONE square block and a cut sphere. Just can't get em to match - even close.

Any help or thoughts are appreciated! Thanks!

Les Grut

Textures will fit diferently for squares and spheres. You will just have to play with the repetition numbers til you get them to match... Have Fun..!

It's not really clear what you mean, but I'll try to guess.
Texture offsets are in percent of the full image size, yes. Repeats are absolute values. Aligning them across multiple prims is simple math if the faces of those prims meet at a common edge.
I'm guessing you're trying to align textures on a half-sphere that sits on one side of a square block... if so, what you want isn't possible. The sphere and the face it sits on don't have a common edge where they meet, on top of that, the texture on the sphere is distorted because of the way it's wrapped around it. You might get some better results by dimpling the sphere instead of cutting it, so that the pole where the texture is most heavily distorted is facing away from the other prim face.

On the other hand, don't get mad about it, especially with a simple texture like concrete. Many people will probably not even notice.

Its ok, you are doing the same thing we all were, at one time. And he is right most people won't notice. Just relax, it will fit together, watch the numbers or buy an alignment tool.

Make or buy a texture that is like graph paper. Arrow pointing up and down, left and right, or whatever.

Paste that on the object. It will help you figure out how to paste *your* texture there.,