How to tile a texture?

anonymous_user_ae064207 · April 12, 2015, 8:36am

This is probably the most basic question (I started using unreal engine yesterday) and I was wondering how you tile textures because at the moment the texture is just stretched across my object. Any help?

anonymous_user_e955dac61 · April 12, 2015, 9:27am

Hey there!

This is very simple. In your material, attach a TextureCoordinate node to the UV input of your diffuse (and normal, if you have one). Then, you can change the X and Y tiling inside it.

anonymous_user_ae064207 · April 12, 2015, 9:31am

Thanks! When I searched for an answer all I got were people complaining that it was tiled (instead of my problem being that it wasn’t). This worked perfectly though!

anonymous_user_e418560f · April 19, 2015, 10:48pm

This is the tutorial I am following and it seems for them, it was automatically set to tiling from the start, but for mine it is clamping and stretching. When I went into the M_Concrete_Tiles and set the TexCoord from .5/.5 to 5/5 it looked better, for the floor texture, but when I tried to increase it for the wall texture M_Concrete_Poured to something like 1 / 25 and 25 / 1 and nothing changes. I am not sure if I’m not changing the right TexCoord’s values for UTiling and VTiling. I’ve seen in other post about this advanced option setting texture to clamp or tiling but I have been unable to find this option. Any idea how I should go about trying to tile the wall texture?

dangarbri_1 · August 3, 2015, 12:14am

Is there any way to make it tile correctly an all sides of something like a block? adding a bunch of tiles this way only looks good on 2 sides of a stretched block and the rest is squished

anonymous_user_9e9b3397 · October 6, 2015, 10:44pm

So I can’t use the texture coordinate in a material instance? It doesn’t show up for me. Thanks for any help.

RUWD · September 3, 2016, 10:35pm

Alittle late, but just ran into this problem myself… one way to get is to, pull from a UV socket and type in “coord” and it shows up

anonymous_user_afa92833 · September 26, 2017, 8:06am

Here is a good video on scale-able tiling with “TextureCoordinate” node: Unreal Engine 4 Tutorial - Scale Textures - YouTube

Or, try the “BrickAndTileUVs” node and set variables with “scalar parameter” nodes in the material’s blueprint… seems like it is designed to do tiling as a baked feature in UE4.17

See blueprint example in this thread: https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/rendering/104244-how-to-make-a-ceramic-tile-floor-material?p=892751#post892751

NextWorldVR · April 3, 2019, 4:33pm

That didn’t work for me,. I found this ‘TextureCoordinate’ and it worked predictably…,.

Dreaghy · September 18, 2019, 10:17pm

You need to attach the “Texture Coordinate” node to both your textures in the “UVs”. Not only the NormalMap one.

El_hugue · September 19, 2019, 1:14am

Hi, hope this could help you

Patrick.O · December 16, 2020, 7:49pm

This is the best answer. This exposes the UV tiling as parameters, which means you change the tiling on any Material Instances you create from the Material.

Patrick.O · December 16, 2020, 7:52pm

For new users, the U_Normal and V_Normal nodes in the image above are “ScalarParameter” nodes and the Append node is a “AppendVector” node.