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Happy to help, Lance... We get to play the "count the tile" game to get our scale. If you want 4"x8" tile, then you need to count the number of tiles on the image, vertical or horizontal. -The 2:1 tile option in the builder has 12 tiles going across the image. -If we want 8" wide tile the math would be 8 (inches) x 12 (tiles) = 96 would be your Chief Scale The image is square so we can skip the vertical scale math but if you want to do it anyway it'd be... -4 (inches) x 24 (tiles) =96" Everything in the tile builder is square so you just need one value so for example if I was making a picket tile, I'd just count the vertical count since it's easier to count (6 vs 16) and I'd know that the horizontal scale is the same. If you are making materials from images you got from snippets or online, they might not be square and you'd have to count both horizontal and vertical. The best place I've found to "count the tile" is just in the adjust material dialog, I'm working on hopefully adding a field in the future where you can just input the width of the tile and it'll autoscale the material for you but it's not quite ready yet.

Substance Update Hey gang, been a while but there’s new tile, wood, and masonry builder files available today. Nothing crazy big to report yet but a lot of under the hood fixes and some Quality of life fixes. -Unified things like offsets, image inputs, color sliders, etc across the three builders where applicable. -Offsets now have a dropdown for No Offset, 1/3, ½, ¼, or custom. These offsets are classic “Back and forth” offsets while the custom is the old slider that does the stair-step offsets. -Offset dropdowns should only appear when the layouts are offset-able. Hex layouts, for example, cannot be offset so the dropdown does not appear. -Image Inputs now have unified text to better convey what’s going on with color. These two options should hide all “dead” color related sliders while some sliders that people have asked for should still be active. If you can see it, it should work. Image Input – Adjustable Color Image Input – Image Color Only -Image Inputs now have a dropdown to make seamed images seamless, this dropdown only appears when you select an image input. It’s not perfect (it blurs and blends the edges together) but it looks pretty decent on most images I’ve tested with. Should save you a few trips to the image editor. It still needs a large uninterrupted “slab” of material to slice up, but you should be able to grab screengrabs of wood or stone or whatever and tile it nicely. Source Image Edge Edit -Keep Original -Make Seamless -Wood Builder got a stain color selector finally, also paired with a “Stain amount” slider to help dial the color in to your liking. -A few usability fixes that are prepping for future bigger updates. Have fun guys.

Happy to help... There's two ways to do this, the first is to reinstall the substance player and to make sure the Substance File Associations are on... This is the bottom checkbox, this will let you double click the tile builder file and it'll open in substance player. The other method is to just open the substance player after you install it and "Open" the tile builder from there... Let me know if either of these don't work for you.

Would love to help... If I understood correctly, you downloaded the newest substance player here... https://helpx.adobe.com/substance-3d-player/home.html And tried to open the tile builder on the first post of this thread and it didn't work? Is there an error message or are you just not seeing any tile?

Looks great!

Most of the time, this issue is just caused by being logged out of Chief. If anyone ever can't bring down these files and they are logged in, feel free to message me and I'll get it checked out.

I'll get it on the TODO list. Should be an easy Add.

Hey Melissa, for your scale you'll want the "3:1 Tile" in substance player to match ratios to your 3"x9" Target. Once in Chief, we'll need to count the number of tiles in the image we got from substance player and do a little math to get the Scale in Chief. Number of horizontal tiles x Width of Actual Tile = Chief Scale So for this example we have... 8 tiles across the 3:1 tile layout x 9" wide tile. Scale for the material in Chief should be 72". Because the image is square, the vertical scale value will be the same. Let me know if this helps at all.

I just added a stamped tin folder to core in X16 in the last update. I know you said you were on X13, but it's there waiting for you if you ever make the jump to X16+. One thing you can also try is just adding a normal map of any pattern you want onto a tin metal material. Just poking around on Google, you can find some decent looking stuff and apply it to a metal material in Chief, See image.

Hey Chopsaw! Good catch. Yeah, I kinda vaguely remember STLs not carrying material data but sorta hoped SolidWorks has some other export options that can carry it or had some sort of clever system in place that Chief can read. Either way, mats need to be assigned for Chief to break an import into material layers. I've never dabbled in SolidWorks, I'm pretty curious about it though.

Chief works with material layers when importing, so when you make something to import you need to apply materials for where you want chief to see them before you export. I'm not familiar with SolidWorks workflow but in 3ds max I need to make a specific material for the cab, countertop, hardware, etc. I then need to apply the materials to the correct locations on the model then export/import should show the material layers in Chief. I'll dig into SolidWorks tomorrow morning if this is still kinda confusing and help out more. Also, if you post your model I can show you how I do it in 3ds Max if that helps at all.

Hey Neil, looks like you have your "Scale" in the texture Panel set to 0mm on both the X and the Y. Scale is the size Chief makes the material show as before it repeats on itself and setting it to 0 makes it behave as if "Stretch to Fit" was active so your single tile is being stretched to fit the surface you apply it to. Try setting the "Scale" to be the dimensions you'd like the single tile to be and see what you get, if that's still not working let me know and we can try some more solutions.

Yup yup! Thanks for the heads up KBird. All the files should be on the first post of the thread. For the tile builder, you're looking for... Chief_Architect_Tile_Builder.sbsar If you see it and it says "Unavaiable" then you need to sign into ChiefTalk to enable file download. If you still can't find it, let me know and I'll investigate further.

Glad to hear you use it, a brick builder is very much on my list of things to get done. The second I get a manufacturer catalog or a material update with brick assigned to me, I'll flesh one out and get it posted.

Yeah, the image input takes the image you give it and slices it up into the tile layout you select. I'm unable to make it remove the grout or add more surface area though so your best bet is to either find a better continuous image (counter tops work great for this kind of stuff) or edit the image via photoshop or something else to take out the grout. I'll also add "Terrazo Material" type to the todo list for next time.