Chaos Enscape Ideas Portal
The online platform for Enscape users to submit, vote, and collaborate on creative suggestions.
The online platform for Enscape users to submit, vote, and collaborate on creative suggestions.
Hello,
Having the ability to either randomise or shift material tiles to avoid the classic tiling when applying a material to a surface (i.e. bricks to a wall) would greatly increase workflow fluidity. It would reduce the requirements for spending time photoshopping or adjusting existing materials by allowing for the randomisation to occur within the material library.
The user could define the offset so that the 'tiles' are able to be controlled so they are able to align to look realistic, rather than completely random,
Thanks!
Hello,
thank you for the detailed suggestion.
We understand the motivation behind reducing visible tiling and the desire for more material variation directly in the renderer. However, controls such as tile randomization, offsets, or per-material variation are primarily aimed at fine-tuning visual output rather than supporting real-time design exploration. Introducing this level of material manipulation would add complexity and move Enscape away from its core principles of simplicity, performance, and tight integration with the design authoring tools.
For cases where minimizing tiling and increasing surface realism is important for final imagery, we recommend using the Large Surfaces feature within the AI Enhancer for exported images, which is specifically designed to improve material appearance without impacting the real-time workflow.
For these reasons, we’re not planning to implement this request in Enscape at this time, and we’ll be closing the idea. We appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback and hope the AI-enhanced export tools can cover this need in your workflow.
The issue with this proposal is, that textures are usually designed in a way to reduce obvious repetition patterns if simply placed next to each other. If you would move them around freely, the tiling would be even more obvious.
I could imagine that the proper solution to your request would rather be procedural textures. Am I right with this?