Texturing a Floor with 3DS Max and Floor Generator

[@287niner]

That was a great tutorial!! I never realized the UVW unwrap modifier can be used so simply. I knew about this plugin for a long time, but never thought to get it. Now I see why so many people use it. Thank you!

[@mahendrajangid5553]

Hey Bro, I am a interior Designer by profession , I just wanna say is your tutorials are the best thing I can find on KZbin about 3DS max and Vray, thank you so much man, keep the great work...

[@DenisKeman]

Cheers man. Most of the students i've had have been interior decorators and architects so i do try to give a bit of a more in depth explanation to help you guys out :)

[@mahendrajangid5553]

Hello Sir, I just wanna say is, As I am new to 3DS max , and you have the best tutorials on KZbin, I have a request , I am not aware of all the modifiers on max so my request is you just make 1 or 2 videos and explain what each modiefir do, so may people like me can take advantage of that. thankyou sir.

[@MegaKirile]

Great explanations, thank you!

[@tahirumarji4766]

thnks denis . . . . as ever. . great tutorial. . .thnks thnks thnks. . . lots of thnks. . keep goin. . . m eager to learn . . the way of explaing is superb

[@DenisKeman]

So many thanks in a single comment :) Cheers

[@perseohernandez755]

Wow , just what I was looking for... Great tutorial, thanks

[@dylannguyen1402]

Awesome Denis. Its very helful

[@Mark_5150]

You could set your texture to "mirror" to help eliminate the seams in your tiled texture. You still might see a mirroring of the texture, but it will be less noticeable than the gradient shift. But as you said, if details are really important, moving the UVs as you did are the best way to handle it. I've never tried floor generator, I usually make the map in photoshop and apply that, floor generator looks much faster. :)

[@DenisKeman]

Main difference when using Floor Generator opposed to a texture is that it's actual geometry. This means you get much better details from light, as well as the AO effect. Also you can use the floor generator for walls and even roofs. All in all it's a pretty decent plugin

[@ashinlive36302gmail]

Thank You So Much!! All Your Tutorials Are Well Explained & Very Helpful. :)

[@yoav2393]

great tutorial , Thanks :-)

[@bengens6070]

hey Denis, thanks for the tutorial. Second example doesn't work for me, maybe you can help: I have the plane, the floor generator with herrington, added the uvw map (tried both planar and box), added the uvw mapping clear (and also not, didn't see any difference in the result), added the unwrap and the flatten mapping but with negative results, the boards change but 20-30% are incorrect in their position. I've also tried collapsing the mesh before adding the uvw map, tried changing some values in the flatten mapping window, but it was all useless. Any ideas? Also, if I use the basket shape the result is worst, about 50-50 right and wrong position of the texture on the boards.

[@emilynoblekirk7470]

Untick rotate clusters in the flatten options when you flatten it.

[@danieltris1244]

Really great tutorior, really usefull for the beginer like me. Thanks

[@Aryat]

Thanks Denis

[@dariamamina1399]

Thank you Denis, this is very useful! But do you have any clue why some planks flatten vertically and some - horizontally so I have to rotate them to get the proper result?

[@DenisKeman]

Just rotate it until you get the desired result

[@huixianzhang3153]

Vrey helpful,thank you very much!

[@jotacoxabagaray]

Very good, like ever.

[@mehrannezamdoust1258]

Thank you

[@TheHosixxxxx]

Best teatcher ever :)

[@quantahoang]

Hello, thank you for your tutorials but I have a question , I notice when I try to scale my map in UV Editor, the map expanding in different direction. Do I need to turn off Rotate clusters in Flatten Mapping panel to fix that problem ?

[@kaushikshah1632]

Thank you....

[@kirill8893]

Thanks Denis! you are a great mentor. I learn every time i see your video's. Denis, is using Iray a bad choice? I like the preset materials they made.. Greetings from the Netherlands.

[@DenisKeman]

Not at all. IRay is a pretty decent renderer on it's own, but it's a different renderer which means a different workflow.

[@fanikurti2420]

thank you!!!!!

[@cwidd1929]

Great tutorial, thank you! Is there really *no* other way than manually adjusting the position of the UV shell to eliminate the apparent seams?

[@DenisKeman]

You can always use a tileable texture and increase the tiling number till you get it to a size that you like.

[@Erwin150857]

Good very good thanks.

[@rendericeib4513]

you sound like Philip Seymour Hoffman, excellent tutorials by the way

[@DenisKeman]

Well congrats you made me giggle :) Cheers man and hope you enjoy the rest of the tutorials even though i sound like PS Hoffman :)

[@MotionPunk]

Nice tip with unwrap. In max 2017 when i do the same procedure, unless very little number of planks, max crashes when i press flatten. And if it makes it to flatten em, some are rotated weird and not all parallel as in ur tut. Any help appreciated :) thanks again

[@DenisKeman]

dont really know what to tell you about this as i've had 2017 do some crazy unwrapping for me as well.

[@MotionPunk]

crazy u mean bugged right? thanks

[@DenisKeman]

Oh yeah :)

[@nangvan1370]

Hi Sir, would you mind making a tutorial on , creating water puddles on the road... And a very awesome tutorial by the way... Much love from Myanmar :)

[@dorotastefanik6175]

Do you have the gap between the floorboards? When I add FloorGenerator into my floor plane then it automaticly transforms into floorboards and through this boards I can see the other side especially with "Grouth Len" parameter greater than 0. Should I build FloorGenerator on a separate plane in order to avoid the holes? Thanks for your great tutorial !

[@DenisKeman]

If you don't want to see the gaps simply put an underlying plane beneath the geometry and that will fix any light leaks that you might have

[@tariqbhatti5493]

work work and work

[@ImReadyD151]

I had a quick question, so I'm working on my personal computer at home, if I use this floor generator plugin at my house, then load up the file on my schools computer, will there be an issue with compatibility, or should it be ok?

[@DenisKeman]

As long as you collapse the stack it should be any issues. In case you don't know what that means, right click on the floor mesh that is created and convert it into edible poly

[@BryanTromp86]

what about the side of the planks? Is there a way to do that with the plugin to get a correct uv map applied?

[@DenisKeman]

You can select the middle (main) part of the plank and then stitch the rest of the side planks to it. That way the texture will be consistent and flowing

[@saltamashz30]

Requiest. Sir please show how to render a room without maps or taxture for light test. Is ther any settings for disable maps.? Please help me out.

[@shady5553]

I believe you would create a vray override material and apply it to the whole scene by turning on vray override in the render settings and applying the material there.

[@telefonkirtys]

Off topic question. Why you use light portals? For me they only add noise and don't do much else.

[@DenisKeman]

It's basically for the environment light to know where to get into the room from. Basically it makes the light act more physically correct

[@telefonkirtys]

But is it nesesery? I mean does it worth the extra amount of noise it produces?

[@DenisKeman]

Dealing with the noise is another issue that you deal with separately. In the end it all boils down on how much details you want to have in the lighting

[@telefonkirtys]

Ok, then other off topic question :D When talking about noise, what's your opinion on vray denoiser? Is it good, or you hate with a passion for blurring texture detail?

[@DenisKeman]

I don't hate it at all but like i said it all depends on the level of detail that you need. For me personally i prefer to manually get rid of noise rather then depend on the denoiser

[@arqzarg6214]

Why don't you use the multitexture map?

[@DenisKeman]

:) one of the reasons why i made this video is to show you how to get the texturing done without having to use the multitexture map. Usually a case when you have to work with a custom map provided from a client

[@KopeknKedi]

No idea why but my 2017 max crashes every time after i select this generator... Any advice?

[@DenisKeman]

Check if you have all the latest Service Packs installed. That might be the issue

[@KopeknKedi]

That must be it. Thanks!

[@dynamic5109]

Simple technique for a standard floor... completely useless for a Chevron!