Ground Textures For Large Environment

[joaomontenegro]

Hello,

I have a very large environment and (of course) need to texture it. I was wondering if anyone had any tips on the best way of creating the ground texture. I was thinking procedurally but I can't seem to get a good one out of the maya options...I would be willing to keep pushing along this track, if I get a confirmation that it is possible to get a good ground procedurally with maya (no plugins unfortunatly).

I guess the other technique would be to use a texture, but I need the camera to be close to the ground and at an shallow angle, so I feel like the texutre would have to be unreasonably large to keep it crisp...

Or I guess I could break the ground into smaller pieces...but that seems like it would coem with its own set of problems.

It would be great to hear how other people have approached this...

Thanks a bunch,

LR

[drblacksnake]

definately break - this would render faster. besides you can hide unnecessary parts. you may not have straight edges on geometry, but at least make uvBorder straight. Yet better do a large planar projection on all tiles an correct that uvBorder colectively, then separate. finally, add for each piece a texture through switch utility.

[gwelch]

If you can get a maya texture that you like but it is not detailed enough, try turning down the filter value (default 1) to 0. This un-blurs the texture and reveals small detalis seen when your camera is close.