texturing large scale cityscapes

[Rendermedia]

Hi All,

I have been given a Z model of a town which I intend to modify and map terrain textures, to,

around the centre of town are hundreds of small 3 bed terraced, semi, houses, the camera will not focus on this too much but I was wondering of any way I could procedurally / randomly assign different varying brick/roof textures,

Many thanks

Mark

[kippu]

i came across something http://www.metromodeler.com /// wont know if it helps you

[Rendermedia]

Hi Thanks for the link

 

I have all the models i need, I was just thinking of an efficient way of giving hundreds of houses varying different textures via modifiers or a script

 

Cheers

Mark

[chiquito]

Theres a scrip Mat_id_dashboard

you select polys and it randomly assigns ids, use multi material. Tweak many variatians on photoshop. render by material layering?

[Simon Moir]

Check out the MaterialByElement modifier.

[Rendermedia]

Hi thanks a lot

I will check those out, I think the script could be quite useful as I have hundreds of houses with varying brick faded etc,

I was thinking of something to do with the tile procedural map texture in max so that I can get true faded random images across the houses, the only thing I would need to watch is the mapping, although I am quite high up in the air.

I will give them all a try

Cheers

Mark