[Igor Weldt]

Hi everyone,

We’re currently trying to improve the quality of our wood finishes and colour textures to achieve a more realistic look in our renderings.

We’ve taken some high-resolution photos of real materials to use as textures, but we’re facing a common issue:

visible tiling and repeating seams, particularly noticeable in wood grain patterns. Even with good lighting and high-res images, it’s clear where the image repeats — which really hurts the realism.

We’re looking for advice on a few things:

How do you usually prepare seamless textures from real materials?

Are there any recommended standards (resolution, scale, aspect ratio) that work well with 2020 Design?

What’s the best workflow or tools to make wood textures tile properly without visible repetition?

Does anyone have a sample wood texture and scale settings that worked well in a project?

We’d love to hear how others in the community handle this – any tips, resources, or examples would be a huge help!

Thanks in advance!

[Elaine Sommerville]

You can change the size of the texture to help avoid this when you “create a texture”. Additionally I am finding that importing CAD Textures from free sites is working quite well. Good luck! This is some wall paper I found. See attachment.

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[Ariana Thompson]

I second Elaine’s suggestion to keep the scale large – but it’s important you’re not stretching a small sample.  You’ll see it.  I love the free textures here:

https://www.sketchuptextureclub.com/

For tile, if your tile has a large amount of variation – make a large sample so the repeat is less obvious. You’ll always see it, but if it’s a decent sized sample with no “main character” tiles – you won’t see it as much.  If you’re going to have a tile that half on one side of the sample and the other half is on the other side of the sample, have it be the SAME tile – so it blends seamlessly.

I make my samples in MS Paint (yes!) so it’s more than possible!

Ariana

 

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[Glen Rhodes]

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