Newbie Question - Getting Textures to Line up

I just built my first house, and went to texture it. as expected, when I placed the same texture on all sides, because of the different sized prims, the texture sizes were all different, even with the same "size" setting. Is there a way to make a bunch of faces have the same uniform texture, so that they all line up nice and peachy? Or is it just manual tweaking for a few hours until they line up?
Thanks

John

Hi Johnny,

Pick a side where the scale is set the size you want.

Look a the bottom entry on the texture screen (repeats per meter)

Go to the other textures and set that to be the same on each of them and then use the Horiz/Vert adjustments to get the edges to match up exactly.

For any prims using shear and topsize, you will need to make unique testures if you want them to match up as well.

-Racer P.

Johnny-

You also might want to be sure that the texture(s) you are using are tilable- thet is- designed in such a way as to match seamlessly on top bottom, left and right edges. You can check this by setting the Repeats Per Face in the texture tab to 2.0 horizontal & vertical & see what the edges look like.

A lot of manual tinkering may still be necessary to line up even a tilable texture just right, particularly complex patterns.

Happy tinkering!

one last thing.

Depending on the tile pattern, you can 'flip' every other tile and get perfect edgemetches.

This won't work on diagonal patterns, but can sometimes look fantastic with square ones.

If it works (rare but worth trying just to be sure), this can save lots of aggravation.

Racer P.

Blueman Steele makes a texture designed with grids, colors, arrows, numbers, and all sorts of fancy stuff to help out with moving textures around.....ask him about it, comes with a nice howto notecard too.