BerconTile 3 and 'fade' controls

[tricky]

I love BerconTile. I dream about her at night. However, there is one thing I cannot get her to do: randomly fade colours from tile to tile (just as simply as you can with max's own Tile material). This prevents me from using her for things like terracotta rainscreen cladding.

Anyone know the easiest way to achieve this?

[beestee]

In your bercon tiles map, you need to put a very small scale noise map in the variation slot to mix the textures in the color 1 and color 2 slots:




Fine grain control for the variation can be accomplished through the high and low thresholds in the noise. The phase control will basically be the equivalent of random seed.

[tricky]

In your bercon tiles map, you need to put a very small scale noise map in the variation slot to mix the textures in the color 1 and color 2 slots:

[ATTACH=CONFIG]6624[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=CONFIG]6623[/ATTACH]

Fine grain control for the variation can be accomplished through the high and low thresholds in the noise. The phase control will basically be the equivalent of random seed.

Never thanked you for this, and just found it. Cheers mate.

[tricky]

In your bercon tiles map, you need to put a very small scale noise map in the variation slot to mix the textures in the color 1 and color 2 slots:

[ATTACH=CONFIG]6624[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=CONFIG]6623[/ATTACH]

Fine grain control for the variation can be accomplished through the high and low thresholds in the noise. The phase control will basically be the equivalent of random seed.

Mmm. Just giving this a try but I don't seem to have a variation slot? Could I be using an old version I wonder?

[robdeja]

If you use multitexture (also by Jerry Ylilammi, available from cg-source.com) with bercon tiles, you can vary the amount of gamma/hue/sat per tile in multitexture.
So what I do is just use one solid colour bitmap in the multitexture and just vary the gamma on that to replicate the standard max tile variation.

[tricky]

If you use multitexture (also by Jerry Ylilammi, available from cg-source.com) with bercon tiles, you can vary the amount of gamma/hue/sat per tile in multitexture.
So what I do is just use one solid colour bitmap in the multitexture and just vary the gamma on that to replicate the standard max tile variation.

Yep - realised shortly after posting this that this would be a good method. Bercon maps are very very good, but I guess the author is really doing it 'on-the-side' so help files etc are not really up to date. I think he should really charge for his script.