Tile material question / challenge

[dean_dmoo]

Hi,

I'm currently working on a large public swimmingpool and the design requires floortiling that goes from dark grey to light grey within a gradient-esque principle. See image (https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...6a679ce504.jpg).

I generally work with floorgenerator and use random mat. id to create a diverse spread of tiles within a colour range (for example dark grey). With a swimmingpool the floor is an important aspect so I prefer having it as geometry and the scale (50+ meters) means I can minimise tiling by combining the geometry with random mat. id and a multimaterial.

However, besides manually dividing the geometry up to get the gradient effect I'm at a loss how I can otherwise do this. Preferably I would like to add something like a gradient ramp in the random mat id modifyer so that the mat id's can be clustered along a gradient. For example id1-4 at white, id4-8 at grey and id8-12 at black.

Anybody have a tips or can point me in the right direction? Thanks!

Dean

[joconnell]

Maybe if you use a gradient ramp with four swatches, set the interpolation to solid so you get four bands of colour. On each colour swatch there's the option to use a texture instead of just the colour of the swatch so you could sub in a random mat in each that uses a slightly darker range as it goes down the gradient? Bercon gradient is handy for this!

[dean_dmoo]

Hi Jo,

Thanks for the response.

I'm not sure I understand your solution correctly but I think you are approaching it from a different starting point, which is probably better.

My starting point it to create 12 materials/multimaterial (variation in colour and reflection) and link them in to a floorgenerator geometry and use the randommat id modifyer to create the randomness. However for the last step I am looking to enbale the random mat's to be organised to create the gradient effect.

Your version, If I understand correctly, is to create textures with a random colourrange using the gradient ramp and then link that to the geometry. Is that right?

[theedge]

You should be able to achieve this using Bercon Tiles. It has an option to apply a mosaic style effect driven by a map.

[thablanch]

Depending on the need for details, but I would probably use the regular 'tile' map with gradient ramps. Does this knig of thins quite correctly.

[chris-x//]

Latest railclone tip may help you : https://www.facebook.com/itoosoft/?fref=nf

[dean_dmoo]

Thanks guys, that last one should be perfect!

[flino2004]

http://www.vizpark.com/shop/mosaic/

there is an example using a gradient map

[Paul Roberts]

Glad that tip was helpful for someone so quickly

If you need them there are some sample files on our forum too: http://forum.itoosoft.com/index.php?topic=3880.0

Cheers!

Paul

[dean_dmoo]

Thanks Paul!

Will check it out.