Textures - Seams

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Quality Guideline: Textures - Seams

Appears in: Body Shop - All, and Buy Mode

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Possible Assessments

Category	Title	Description
Body Shop - All	None	The texture seems to have seams in places where the pattern used isn't repeating and blending really well. When creating recolours with repeating patterns, or even patterns themselves, you want to make sure that the pattern is repeating really nicely! If you're wondering where to find OR make good patterns, just check out our tutorial section :)
Body Shop - All	None	The texture seems to have seams in places where it shouldn't. When creating seams on clothing, it's always good to look at your own clothing. You might see that at the shoulder area on a shirt, the sleeves and torso would meet up and therefore show a seam :) So, make sure that such seams on simple clothing aren't appearing across the belly area or back or places where it normally wouldn't, unless there is a specific reason for it.
Body Shop - All	None	The texture or the texture's pattern seems to have a few seams in places where it shouldn't be, though they're not too visible and still nice-looking! In the future, it might be worth checking out what caused it and how to fix it in future uploads :)
Body Shop - All	None	The texture has no seams and any seams that are on it are all looking gorgeous and right in place! :) Heel goed gedaan!
Buy Mode	None	The texture used on the object seems to have seams in places where it normally wouldn't. For example, a table wouldn't have a sudden seam in the middle of the surface bits. A couch, however, usually would have a seam in the middle of the cushions. Do try to take a good look at your reference to see where specific seams are supposed to be :)
Buy Mode	None	The texture or the texture's pattern seems to have a few seams in places where it shouldn't be, though they're not too visible and still nice-looking! In the future, it might be worth checking out what caused it and how to fix it in future uploads :)
Buy Mode	None	The texture has no seams and any seams that are on it are all looking gorgeous and right in place! :) Heel goed gedaan!

General Guidelines

Seam are, in general, places where 2 pieces of fabric join, and can show up in:

A repeating pattern that has obvious seams in them. (that being just a pattern upload or even CASparts or objects/furniture)
Clothing and objects/furniture where things definitely look cut off or just obviously show a seam where they aren't supposed to be.

This doesn't necessarily mean that seams can only appear on objects and CASparts with patterns, but also if your regular solid texture is showing seams that aren't specifically folded or seams belonging to the clothing or object itself. It's always good to check in-game or in your 3D program to see if there are any issues ;)

If you noticed any seams appearing at a place where on the actual texture file it definitely isn't showing any, then checking out your UV map is something that we would definitely recommend!

Also see Meshes - UV Mapping

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Examples

Correct

Why is this correct?

This is a complicated pattern. Placing it correctly on the texture ensures a nice flowing look. There are no visible breaks in the pattern on this texture where there shouldn't be. Lovely!

Incorrect

Why is this incorrect?

The pattern was not lined up correctly when placing it on the texture, or the pattern used was not seamless. Therefore, you can see a visible line in a break in the pattern where there shouldn't be one.

Correct

Why is this correct?

The lines in the seams of the love seat all match up and are in their correct places. Yay!

Incorrect

Why is this incorrect?

Whoops! The texture here got misaligned either during the creation of the texture or the UV Map.

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