honing the edges

cellar_roof-before.jpg

As mentioned in a previous post, one of the more common issues a person deals with in the texturing of objects is the resolution of how materials meet at their edges. This is especially acute when the materials are dissimilar. In this example we are attempting to express the soil of the cellar roof as being contained within a rigid box container, however simply applying a different texture on the sides of the cellar roof doesn’t yield the result we are looking for.

A remedy involved the preparation of eight new grass textures, each with a slightly different combination of borders along its sides to cover off the four corners and the four cardinal directions. As a gradient was utilized on the border simply flipping or rotating the textures would not have been sufficient:

cellar-roof-texture.jpg

The result is that the edges of the cellar roof are now perceived with a certain thickness and mass, achieved without the need for additional prims.

cellar_roof-after.jpg

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